Noun

General notion
Classification of Nouns
 substance

lifeless names of
things living beings
Noun

abstract various
notions materials
Number

Countable nouns

singular plural
Case

Leaving beings

Common case Possessive case

The category of gender
• there is only one gender-forming
suffix -ess, which shows feminine
gender
(E.g. a lion – a lioness, a waiter – a
waitress, a tiger – a tigress etc.).
• there some words which show their
gender by their lexical meaning
• (E.g. a father , a mother, a boy etc).
The syntactical characteristics
of the noun
In the sentence the noun can have the function of:

1. the subject (E.g. Students must work hard.);

2. the predicative (E.g. John Brown is a doctor.);

3. an object (E.g. She likes chess.);

4. an attribute (E.g. Peter’s bag is new.);

5. an adverbial modifier (E.g. These children go to

school).
Classification of Nouns

According to their lexical meaning

and morphological characteristics
English nouns are divided

proper

common.
Proper nouns

names of geographical
persons (E.g. names (E.g.
Mary Smith, London,
John Brown, Paris, Italy,
etc.),, etc.)

the names of names of hotels,

months and days clubs, ships (E.g.
of the week Hilton, Rotary
(E.g. September, Club, etc.).
Monday, etc.),
Common nouns
are names of any individual of a class of
persons, things, materials and abstract notions

Common nouns are divided

into four groups:

abstract nouns.
class nouns

collective nouns nouns of material

According to their countability

nouns can
be

uncountable countable
(E.g. love, (E.g. a pencil,
literature, etc.). a box, etc.)
Class nouns
• are names of persons or things
which belong to a certain class
(E.g. a teacher, a house, a flower,
etc.).
• These nouns are countable.
Collective nouns
• are names of persons or things presented as a single unity.
• They are divided into three groups:

1. nouns used only

in the singular (E.g.
machinery, foliage,
etc.)

3. nouns 2. nouns used

used in the only in the plural
singular and (though singular
plural (E.g. in form): (E.g.
family, nation, police, poultry,
fleet, etc.) gentry, etc.)
Nouns of material

•are names of various

materials
•(E.g. silk, water, iron, etc.).
•As a rule they are
uncountable.
Abstract nouns
•are names of abstract
notions
(E.g. love, friendship, literature, etc.).
•Normally these nouns are
uncountable.