1. Part Of Speech
( nouns )
Prepared by : Mohd Faiz B Dhamanhuri
Mohd Aidil B Othman
Mohd Ashraf Adib B

2. Preamble
• A noun is a name of anything
• It is the name of a thing, a person, an
animal, a bird, a place, an idea, a thought, a
subject, a feeling and a quantity.

3. Kind Of Nouns
Common
nouns
Collective Kind of Proper
nouns nouns nouns
Abstract
nouns

4. Common nouns
• A common noun is a name given in common
to every person or thing of the same class or
kind
• Examples : man, villages, river, bank, woman

5. Proper nouns
• A proper noun is the special name of a
particular person and place
• Examples : Batu Pahat, Malaysia, Hassan
• A proper noun begins with a capital letter

6. Abstract noun
• An abstrat noun is the name of something
that we can only think of or feel but cannot
see
• Examples : beauty, wisdom, loss, anger

7. Collective noun
• A collective noun is the name of number of
persons or things taken or though of as one
• Examples : an army of soldier, a band of
musicians, a choir of singers

8. Gender
• A boy or a man is a male.
• A girl or a woman is a female
• Genders tells whether a person or animal is a
male or female
• In others words gender tells the sex of a
person and animal

9. Nouns have four genders
Masculine Feminine
gender gender
Neuter Common
gender gender

10. Explanations
• The masculine gender is used for all males
– Examples: boy, man, father
• The feminine gender is used for all females
– Examples: woman, girl, sister
• The common gender is used where noun can be both
male or female
– Examples: cousin, friend, person
• The neuter gender is used for a things which have no
life or sex or are not thought of as having life or sex
– Examples : table, chair, book

11. Type of gender
( person )
masculine feminine
boy Girl
lord Lady
sir Madam
Uncle aunt

12. Type of gender
( creatures )
masculine Feminine
bull Cow
dog Bitch
Cock Hen
leopard Leopardess

13. Number of nouns
• The singular numbers shown only one
person, animal, thing or place
• Examples: a boy, a book, a pen
• The plural numbers shown more than one
person, animal, things or place
• Examples : boys, books, dogs

14. The plural of nouns
• By adding ‘s’ to the singular
Singular Plural
Ant Ants
Boy Boys
girl girls

15. The plural of nouns
• By adding ‘es’ to nouns ending in a hissing
sound, that is ending in –x, -sh, -s
Singular Plural
Box Boxes
six Sixes
Bus Buses
batch batches

16. The plural of nouns
• By changing –y after consonant, into ‘ies’
Singular Plural
Army Armies
City Cities
lady Ladies

17. The plural of nouns
• By changing ‘f’ or ‘fe’ into ‘ves’
Singular Plural
leaf Leaves
Knife Knives
Half Halves
Wife wives

18. The plural of nouns
• By changing inside vowel
Singular Plural
Man Men
Woman Women
Mouse Mice
Goose Geese

19. The plural of nouns
• These word take ‘en’ or ‘ren’
Singular Plural
Child Children
ox oxen

20. The plural of nouns
• Some nouns have no plural forms
Singular Plural
Sheep Sheep
Deer Deer
Fish Fish
cattle cattle

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