The document discusses parts of speech, specifically nouns. It defines nouns and the different types of nouns including common nouns, proper nouns, collective nouns, abstract nouns, concrete nouns, countable nouns, and mass nouns. Rules for forming plural nouns and cases of nouns are also explained.

1. ENGLISH
PARTS OF SPEECH

2. NOUN
KINDS OF NOUN

3. Underline the nouns in the following sentences.
1. Windzohr lives in Australia
2. The house is old and is missing one door.
3. When will the train arrive?
4. Love is in the air.
5. Liza, Aries and Rowena are my best friends.

4. NOUN
A noun is a word that names a person, an animal, a
place, an object, or idea.

5. KINDS OF NOUN
A common noun is a general name for a person,
place, thing, or idea and is not capitalized.
A proper noun is the specific name of a particular
person, place, thing, or idea and is always
capitalized.
Billy and Betty are playing with their son, Virgel,
at the park.
EXAMPLE: Jennie dreams to visit Baguio.
Lisa left her pencil in the bus.

6. The audience enjoys the show.
The crowd was very big.
Our class consists of twenty pupils.
A collective nouns are singular nouns that refer to
a group of people or things.
A group of players - TEAM
A group of judges - JURY
A group of battleship - FLEET
A group of teachers - FACULTY
A group of friends - GANG

7. Our friendship goes back many years.
It was a pleasure to meet your family.
I haven’t given up hope.
An abstract nouns are words that cannot
perceived through the five senses.
Clever
Courage
Patience
Generosity
Elegance
Wisdom

8. An concrete nouns are words that makes a
sensible observance and operates as a particular
object, person, thing, or anything.
EXAMPLES: BOOK TABLE
CELLPHONE CAR
STONE COW

9. A countable nouns are things that can be
counted. It can take singular or plural verb.
One dog 3 dogs
An apple
An egg
A school
A lemon

10. A mass nouns are uncountable by a number.
Mass nouns are quantified by a word that signifies
amount.
A cup of tea
An ear of corn
A sack of rice
A glass of juice

11. Accommodation Baggage
Behavior Bread Furniture
Information Luggage
Jewellery Traffic Homework
Money Weather Work

13. Give the plural forms of the following nouns.
1.Copy - ________________
2.Centavo - ______________
3.Child - __________________
4.Salmon - ________________
5.Goose - __________________

14. A singular noun names one person, place, thing.
Example: box hero visitor
church child
A plural noun names more than one person,
place , or thing.
Example: boxes heroes visitors
churches children

15. RULES IN FORMING THE PLURAL NOUNS
1. The plural of most nouns is formed by adding –s to
the singular.
Examples: boy-boys room-rooms car-
cars
2. Add –es to form the plural of nouns that end in –s,
-x, -ch, -sh or –z
Examples: match-matches tax-taxes
brush-brushes

16. 3. Noun ending in –y preceded by a consonant, form
the plural by changing –y to –i and add –es.
Examples: city-cities cherry-cherries
dormintory-dormintories
Noun ending in –y preceded by a vowel, form the
plural by merely adding –s.
Examples: toy-toys bay-bays key-keys

17. 4. Add –s to form the plural of some nouns that end
in
–f.
Examples: roof-roofs belief-belief
However, some nouns that end in –f or –fe, form
their plural by changing –f to –fe to –ves.
Examples: wife-wives self-selves
knife-knives

18. 5. Nouns ending in –o preceded by a vowel, form the
plural by adding –s.
Examples: bamboo-bamboos folio-folios
radio-radios
Nouns ending in –o preceded by a consonant, form
the plural by adding –es.
Examples: volcano-volcanoes
potato-potatoes
tomato-tomatoes

19. Words pertaining to music that end in –o. form their
plural by adding –s
Examples: piano-pianos soprano-sopranos
solo-solos
6. A few nouns have the same form in singular and
plural.
Examples: deer-deer chinese-chinese
sheep-sheep

20. 7. A few nouns from their plural by an internel vowel
change.
Examples: man-men child-children
goose-geese
8. The plural of numbers and letters is formed by
adding apostrophe s (‘s)
Examples: A-A’s 2-2’s 10-10’s

21. 9. Nouns that are plural in form (ending in –s) but
singular in meaning.
Examples: news acoustics
mathematics
10.Compound nouns form their plural by adding –s to
the important word.
Examples: editor-in-chief – editors-in-chief
father-in-law - fathers-in-law
court-martial – courts-martial

22. 11. Singular Nouns with ‘um’ at their end need
replacement of ‘um’ by ‘a’ in their plural noun forms.
Example: datum-data curriculum-curricula;
medium-media.
12. When the singular noun ends in ‘is’, the ‘is’
changes to ‘es’ in its plural noun form.
Example: Ellipsis-ellipses Analysis-analyses.

23. 13. Few singular nouns that end with ‘a’, required
changing of this ‘a’ by ‘ae’ for converting into the
plural.
Example: antenna-antennae alumna-antennae.
14. For some singular nouns ending with ‘ex’ or ‘ix’,
replace it with ‘ices’ while converting into a plural
noun.
Examples: index-Indices appendix-appendices.

24. 15. When the singular noun ends in ‘us’, the plural
noun ends in ‘i’.
Example: focus-foci cactus-cacti
16. There are few nouns that only have a plural
noun form.
Examples: binoculars, scissors, jeans,
sunglasses, pants, headphones, pajamas

25. NOUN
GENDER OF NOUNS

26. Indicate the gender of the following. Write M for
masculine; F for feminine; C for common and N for
neuter.
1.Queen
2.Cook
3.Stallion
4.Computer
5.Pilot

27. Masculine refers to male.
Examples: The bull is running on the street.
The king protect his country.
Feminine refers to female.
Examples: A girl is playing in the ground.
Heroine of the movie is not a native of
this country.
GENDER OF NOUNS

28. Common refers to either male or female .
Examples: The student shows intelligence in
answering quiz bowl competition.
The doctor is out of town for a
seminar.
Neuter refers to inanimate things or lifeless
objects.
Examples: Computer has brought about drastic
changes in our lives.
My bag is a gift from Sheena.

29. NOTE:
 The army is doing its task.
 The sun is scorching now that we cannot go out to face
him without an umbrella.
 The moon is so bright at this time that she induces
romantic mood in us.
 Where is the cat? She is in the garden.
 The titanic was a great ship, but she hit an iceberg and
sank.

30. Converting Masculine Gender to Feminine Gender
A number of nouns change from masculine gender
to feminine gender by adding -ess to the masculine
form. Sometimes the spellings may need to be
altered slightly before adding -ess.

31. •Sometimes no rules are followed to form the
feminine gender from the masculine gender.

32. •A number of nouns change from the masculine
gender to the feminine gender by adding a
masculine or feminine word to the common noun.

33. NOUN
CASES OF NOUNS

34. CASES OF NOUN
Nominative cases
Objective case (Accusative
Case)
Dative Case
Possessive case (Genitive

35. Nominative case – a noun is said to be in the
nominative case if it is in the subject of the verb.
Examples: Mr. Ram is an intelligent boy.
The painter paints the portraits.
I am buying vegetables for my
family.

36. Objective case – Nouns (or pronouns) are said to be
in objective case if they are the direct object of the
verb or if they are the object of the preposition.
Examples: I met your sister
The vendor sell mangoes.
The book is on the table

37. Dative case – Nouns (or pronouns) are said to be in
dative case if they are the indirect object of the
verb.
Examples: The teacher gave the students
few exercises.
The postman bought me a letter.

38. ORAL EXPRESSION
ABACK ABATE ACCOLADE
ACCOUTER ACCURATE ACQUIESCE
ACRONYM AEROPHOBIAACROSTIC
ACTUALIZE ACUITY ACUMEN
BABOON BABUSHKA BACKBONE
BACILLUS BACKGAMMON
BACTERIA BACKLOG
BACKLASH BACCALAUREATE

39. WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Spelling. Fill the blanks with ai or ia.
1. Brill__nt 11. frigid_re
2. carr__ge 12. rad__nt
3. ren__ssance 13. abbrev__tion
4. min__ture 14.
appr__se
5. appopr__te 15. million__re
6. marr__ge 16. f__nce
7. rad__tor 17. apprec__te
8. l__bility 18. commerc__l
9. parl__ment 19.auxil__ry