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nouns.ppt
1. A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION BY OBURE MARK
OBJECTIVES:
• By the end of the lesson, you should be able to:
1. Define a noun
2. State examples of nouns
3. Give different types of nouns
4. Explain each type of noun
TOPIC: Nouns
2. WHAT ARE NOUNS?
Nouns are naming words.
They name people, places and objects.
They can also name ideas, emotions,
qualities and activities.
Here are some examples of nouns:
Peter, Elizabeth, driver, sister, friend.
Bristol, Severn, Brazil, pen, dog, money.
Love, beauty, industry, nature, greed,
pain.
3. Types of noun
All nouns can be divided into common
and proper nouns.
Common nouns can then be divided
into countable and uncountable nouns.
Both countable and uncountable nouns
can then be further divided into
concrete and abstract nouns.
We’ll look at each type in turn.
4. First, look again at those types
and how they relate.
nouns
proper
common
countable
uncountable
abstract
concrete
abstract
concrete
5. Proper nouns
Proper nouns start with capital
letters.
They are the names of people, places,
times, organisations etc.
They refer to unique individuals.
Most are not found in the dictionary.
They often occur in pairs or groups.
Here are some examples.
6. Tony Blair
King Henry
Bridget Jones
Christmas
China
Thames
Jontes
Sony
Coca Cola
Macbeth
President Bush
Monday
Kijabe Street
Saturn
Cuba
John
Portugal
Skyline School Muguga
Nairobi
7. Common nouns
All nouns which are not proper nouns
are common nouns.
A few examples: cup, art, paper, work,
frog, bicycle, atom, family, mind.
Common nouns are either countable or
uncountable.
8. Countable nouns
Use these tests for countable nouns:
Countable (or just “count”) nouns can be
made plural: a tree… two trees; a man…
men; a pony… ponies.
In the singular, they may have the
determiner a or an: a sausage; an asterisk.
We ask: How many words/pages/chairs?
We say: A few minutes/friends/chips?
9. Uncountable nouns
Use these tests for uncountable nouns:
Uncountable (or non-count) nouns cannot be
made plural. We cannot say: two funs,
three advices or five furnitures.
We never use a or an with them.
We ask: How much money/time/milk?
(Not How many?)
We say: A little help/effort. (Not A few.)
10. Dual category nouns
• Some nouns may be countable or
uncountable, depending on how we use
them.
• We buy a box of chocolates (countable) or
a bar of chocolate (uncountable).
• We ask: How much time? but How many
times? (where times = occasions).
• We sit in front of a television (set) to
watch television (broadcasting).
11. Field-specific nouns
• Uncountable nouns are often turned into
countable nouns by specialists in a
particular field.They become part of the
jargon of that specialism.
• Grass is usually uncountable but botanists
and gardeners talk about grasses.
• Linguists sometimes talk about Englishes.
• Financiers refer to moneys or even monies.
• Teas may be used to mean types of tea.
12. Remember that both countable and uncountable
nouns can be divided into concrete and abstract
nouns.
The distinction between concrete and abstract
nouns is the most important one of all when you are
analysing linguistic data. A lot of abstract nouns in
a text will have a big impact on its register.
The Plain English Campaign has an excellent website
which will tell you more about the stylistic impact
of abstract nouns.
13. Concrete nouns
• Concrete nouns are the words that most
people think of as nouns.
• They are mostly the names of objects and
animals (countable) and substances or
materials (uncountable).
• Cake, oxygen, iron, boy, dog, pen, glass,
pomegranate, earthworm and door are all
concrete nouns.
14. Abstract nouns
• Abstract nouns name ideas, feelings
and qualities.
• Most, though not all, are uncountable.
• Many are derived from adjectives and
verbs and have characteristic endings
such as –ity, -ness, -ence, and -tion.
• They are harder to recognise as
nouns than the concrete variety.
15. Abstract noun or adjective
• You won’t confuse abstract nouns
with adjectives, as long as you apply a
few tests.
• Happy is an adjective. It behaves like
one: very happy; so happy; happier; as
happy as
• Happiness behaves like a noun: The
happiness I feel; her happiness; great
happiness.
16. A few more examples
Verb or adjective Abstract noun
We were different
from each other.
The difference
between us.
My work is precise. I work with precision.
The air is pure. The purity of the air.
I composed this
tune.
This tune is my
composition.
It is so beautiful. It has such beauty.
You support me. The support you give me.
17. The morphology of nouns
• Nouns change their form for only two
grammatical reasons:
• Countable nouns have a plural form. This is
usually formed by adding –s, of course, but
there are some irregular forms.
• The possessive form of a noun is created
by adding –’s (Henry’s cat) or just an
apostrophe (all our students’ results).
18. Irregular plurals
• Some nouns retain plural endings from Old
English:
• Men, geese, mice, oxen, feet, teeth, knives.
• Loan words from Latin, Greek, French and
Italian sometimes keep their native ending:
• Media, bacteria, formulae, larvae, criteria,
phenomena, gateaux.
• Graffiti, an Italian plural, is now an
uncountable noun in English.
19. Noun phrases
• When we see a noun as performing a role in
a sentence, we think of it as a noun phrase.
• A noun phrase may function as the subject
or object of a clause.
• A noun phrase may consist of a single word
(a noun or pronoun) or a group of words.
• The most important noun in a noun phrase
is called the headword.
20. Examples of noun phrases
(headword in brackets)
• (She) always bought the same
(newspaper).
• A young (man) in a suit was admiring
the (view) from the window.
• Concentrated sulphuric (acid) must be
handled carefully.
• My old maths (teacher) was Austrian.
21. The syntax of noun phrases
• The headword of a noun phrase may be
pre-modified by determiners, adjectives or
other nouns.
• For example, a large, dinner (plate).
• It may be post-modified by a prepositional
phrase.
• This is simply a noun phrase with a
preposition at the beginning.
• For example, a (painting) by Rembrandt.
• Can you spot the modifiers in the last
slide? (Left arrow key takes you back)
22. Clauses modifying nouns
• We can use a clause (a group of words
containing a verb) to post-modify a noun.
• A clause which post-modifies a noun is
called a relative clause or adjectival clause.
• Here are some examples:
• This is the (house) that Jack built.
• (People) who live in glass houses should not
throw stones.