Kinds, Forms, Cases, Possessive,

1. Created by:

2. Nouns
names person, places, things, ideas or qualities.
1. Kinds
2. Forms
• Number
• Gender
• Cases

3. 1.
1. Proper -specific
Kinds
Philippines, Football, Prof. Troy, Washington and Romulo Macalintal
2. Common
-not specific/General
Country, sport, teacher, president, and lawyer etc.

4. 3. Mass/Noncount Noun -
by a number. Mass nouns are quantified by
a word that signifies amount.
a. counters/partitative
Many, few and some, etc.
b. quantifiers
A little, less, and some other determiners that express quantity.
*Both Count & Noncount Nouns : A little, (not) much, a bit
of, all, any, enough,less, a lot of, lots of
more, most , none of, some.
4.Count
countable
Table, chair, computer, and country etc.

5. 5. Abstract
You can’t use five senses
Poverty, Liberty, Freedom, Democracy and Wealth etc.
6. concrete
Tangible/ five senses can be use.
Chair, table and computer etc.

6. 7. Collective Group of noun
soldiers
People
Ships
Horses
Bees
Troops/battalion
Crowd
Fleet
Drove
swarm
8. Compound Two or more words that combine to form a single word
Morpheme
free
bond
a. solid/one word headmaster
b. Separated
police officer
c. Hyphenated
sister-in-law

7. Forms
1. Singular/Plural
Regular/Irregular
Add –s
Add – es
Change – y to – ies
Add – s to –y
Change – f or –fe
e.g. chair-chairs
e.g. match-matches
e.g. toy-toys
e.g. hoof-hoofs, leaf-leaves
“Common Filipino Mistakes”
Don’t add -s
+ -s
Scissor
Shear
Tong
Pincer
Trouser
Measle
Premise
pyjama
Salmons
Trouts
Deers
Sheeps
offsprings
hardwares
chinawares
informations
luggages
equiments
furnitures
jewelries
paperworks
jargons
feedbacks
advices

8. Do not change the spelling at all e.g. deer-deer
Change the spelling
e.g. louse-lice, mouse-mice
Noun w/ 2 plural forms
e.g. cactus-cactuses/cacti,brother-brothers/bret
Plural in form but singular in meaning mumps-mumps
e.g.
Plural in form “in pair”
e.g. jeans-jeans/pants
Plural in form and meaning
e.g. clothes, oats, suds, riches

9. a.
b.
c.
d.
Masculine
Feminine
Common
Neuter
Masculine
Feminine
Common
Neuter
Dog
bitch
Baby
Chair
Lion
lioness
lawyer
table
Prince
princess
Child
book

10. a. Subject
I and Zach discussed the proposal.
b. Object
The proposal disappointed her and Maverick
c. Possessive
John Paulo‟s bag is in fad.
a. Subject
The earth trembled.
b. Object
The earth quake destroyed the City
c. Possessive
The teacher‟s boyfriend is so simple.

11. Possessive
Add „s not ending in –s
Add („) only to plural form
Add („) that do not end in plural form not ending in -s
Add an apostrophe („) & -s to singular nouns not ending in –s
Add only apostrophe („) to plural nouns ending in -s.
Add an apostrophe („) & -s to plural
Add an („s) to 1 syllable nouns that end in -s
e.g. The tail of the dog.
The dog’s tale.
e.g. The tails of the dogs.
The dogs’ tails.
e.g. The question of James
James’s question.
e.g. The shepherd of the sheep.
e.g. The diary of the princess.
The sheep’s shepherd.
Princess’ diary.
The party of the children.
H
The children’s party.
o
e.g. The bag of the teacher.
w
Teacher’s bag.
e
v
e.g. The bag of the boys.
e
The boys’ bags.
r

12. However, due to too much hissing sound simply add („) to more than one
syllable nouns ending in –s.
e.g. The performance of the actress.
Actress‟ performance.
Add only („) to proper nouns with 2 or more syllables that have –s sound before the last
–s sound. of Mosses
e.g. Sermon
Moses’ sermon.
Join ownership
e.g. The room of Tina & Delia.
Tina & Delia’s room.
Separate ownership
e.g. The tickets of John, Zach, and Joshua.
John’s, Zach’s, and Joshua’s tickets.
In compound noun:
Add an (‘s) to the last word.
Add apostrophe &(‘s) to noun ending –z/-x.
e.g. The editor-in-chief’s.
e.g. The success of Perez.
Perez’s success.

13. After determiners (articles)
A student left his book on the table.
Object of the preposition
Dennis gave Sharline a brand new car.
After an adjective
The historical church in Paris collapsed.
After a noun/noun-phrase
I made a gift, sweater, for Catherine.
Object Complement
We made Francis the leader of the class.
Direct Address
Class, sit properly.
Appositive- its explains not describe.
Our dog, poodle, turned 1 month last Christmas.

14. Verbal verb form ending in –ing.
That function as NOUN.
FUNCTIONS
SUBJECT
Swimming is the best exercise..
SUBJECT COMPLEMENT
I don’t like writing.
OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION
Lorenzo is known in swimming
APPOSITIVE
My hobby, reading, is a good for a brain development.