Rosemarie S.

Vinluan
Eng 100 / English Plus
Costo

BSSW 1-A
Mr. Lorenzo Ruiz C.

Noun
A noun (Latin nomen, name) is usually defined as a word denoting a thing, place,
person, quality, or action and functioning in a sentence as the subject or object of
action expressed by a verb or as the object of a preposition. In modern English,
proper nouns, which are always capitalized and denote individuals and
personifications, are distinguished from common nouns.
Nouns and verbs may sometimes take the same form, as in Polynesian languages.
Verbal nouns, or gerunds, combine features of both parts of speech. They occur in
the Semitic and Indo-European languages and in English most commonly with words
ending in -ing.
Compound Nouns
It is a word made up of other words: a word that is formed from two or more
identifiable words.
Simple Nouns
The term 'simple noun' is sometimes used to describe the nouns used to make a compound noun

Noun Classes

Common and Proper Noun

Students of English grammar classes are often confused by the difference between
a common and proper noun. Simply stated, a proper noun is capitalized, whereas a
common noun is not. Any grammar teacher, however, will tell you that the
difference goes deeper than that: there are special rules for identifying and creating
proper nouns, and these might take special studying to understand completely.
The English language is unique in what it considers to be proper nouns and what it
considers to be common nouns. Read on to learn more about the difference
between a common and proper noun, how to use them correctly in sentences, and
how to come up with your own examples of each.

Defining a Common Noun

A common noun is any generic uncapitalizednoun.

Most of the time, these nouns end in s to indicate plurality.
A common noun is only capitalized when it is at the beginning of a sentence.

A basic definition of a common noun is a person, place thing or idea that is not
specific to a certain, particular, or named person, place, thing, or idea.

Defining a Proper Noun

In truth, a proper noun functions exactly the same way a common noun does, in
that it is a person, place, thing, or idea. However, this proper noun is capitalized.
You use them the same way in a sentence as a common noun, but it retains its
capitalization whether or not it is at the beginning of a sentence.
Proper nouns include the days of the week, the months of the year, towns, cities,
streets, states, countries, and brands.
Names are all proper nouns, too! Notice how your own first, middle, and last name
are all capitalized: they are proper nouns because they indicate a specific, particular
person you!

Concrete Nouns

People, places, and things are all concrete nouns. Theyre things you can see or
touch such as kittens and puppies, trees and flowers, sticks and stones, and cities
and countries.

Abstract Nouns

People often find abstract nouns more confusing. Theyre things such as concepts,
feelings, ideas, states of mind, and attributes. For example, honor, loyalty, courage,
truth, and freedom are all abstract nouns.
If you have an abstract word like those, and you want to test whether its really a
noun, one way to do it is to see if you can replace the word with one that is more
recognizable to you as a nouna concrete noun.

Count

nouns refer to things that can be divided up into smaller units which are separate
and distinct from one another. They usually refer to what can individually be seen or
heard:

Noncount

nouns refer to things that cannot be counted because they are regarded as wholes
which cannot be divided into parts. They often refer to abstractions and occasionally
have a collective meaning

Collective Noun

A collective noun refers to a group of people, animals or objects as a group; family,

company, etc. When a collective noun is used in the singular, the verb can be
either Singular or Plural.

Noun Forms

Number (Singular & Plural)

Singular

GRAMMARnot plural: referring to one person or thing.

Plural

referring to more than one: having a grammatical form that refers to more than one
person or thing.

Gender (Masculine, Feminine, Indefinite, and Neuter)

Masculine Nouns

Most masculine nouns end in -o. Ending in an -o can indicate that a person or
animal is male, or just an object, idea, etc. that is grammatically masculine.

Feminine Nouns

Most feminine nouns end in -a. Ending in an -a indicates that a person or animal is
feminine or that an object, idea, etc. is grammatically feminine.

Indefinite Nouns

An indefinite noun is a type of noun that is not specific in its reference. In general,
indefinite parts of speech are words that dont reference a given instance, but to a
generic or open instance of a word. Observing the difference between definite and
indefinite nouns can help language beginners understand more about a language.
Experts describe an indefinite noun as a noun that doesnt refer to something that is
known or familiar, but to something that is theoretical or random. For instance, an
English speaker who refers to "a dog" or "a cat" is using indefinite nouns to refer to
any dog or cat. The same speaker referring to the dog, or saying a particular
dogs name, is talking about a definite dog. Likewise, talking about the cat, or
referring to the cat by name replaces an indefinite noun with a definite one.

Neuter

grammar in some languages : of or belonging to the class of words (called a gender)

that ordinarily includes most of the words referring to things that are neither
masculine nor feminine.
Case

Nominative Case

The nominative case (abbreviated NOM) is one of the grammatical cases of

a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks thesubject of a verb or
the predicate noun or predicate adjective, as opposed to its object or other verb
arguments. Generally, the noun "that is doing something" is in the nominative, and
the nominative is the dictionary form of the noun.

Objective Case
The objective case is used for nouns and pronouns which function as objects. There
are three types of object: a direct object, an indirect object, and anobject of a
preposition.

Possessive Case

The possessive case of a noun is used to show ownership ( Jordan's car, my sister's
house) or other close relationship ( the president's friends, the university's position).
Identifying Nouns In Sentences
Nouns may be inflected to indicate gender (masculine, feminine, and neuter),
number, and case. In modern English, however, gender has been eliminated, and
only two forms, singular and plural, indicate number (how many perform or receive
an action). Some languages have three numbers: a singular form (indicating, for
example, one book), a plural form (indicating three or more books), and a dual form

(indicating, specifically, two books). English has three cases of nouns: nominative
(subject), genitive (possessive), and objective (indicating the relationship between
the noun and other words).