Nouns

Nouns

by Cikgu Zaharudin

What are 'nouns'?

Names of people, animals, places and things

Nouns can be divided into two groups

Common Nouns & Proper Nouns

Common Nouns

Names of people, animals, places and things in general

students, cats, fields, stadiums, books

Proper Nouns

Names of particular people, places, titles, songs, movies, brands, etc.

Gary, Garfield, Bukit Jalil National Stadium, The Prisoner of Azkaban

There are 'singular' and 'plural' nouns

Singular  $\rightarrow$  one           Plural  $\rightarrow$  more than one

Plural nouns

• add 's' to the nouns (boys,cows,bears,bottles,chairs

• add 'es' to nouns ending in -s,-ch,-sh and -x (glasses,watches,bushes,boxes,dishes,foxes)

• add 'es' to some nouns ending in -o (mangoes,potatoes,tomatoes,buffaloes)

• some change completely (child - children, ox - oxen, man - men, woman - women, foot - feet, tooth - teeth, mouse - mice, goose - geese)

• change -y into -ies (fly - flies, lady - ladies, baby - babies, lorry - lorries, city - cities, story - stories)

• change -f or -fe into -ves (leaf - leaves, calf - calves, knife - knives, shelf - shelves)

• some nouns do not change at all either in singular or plural forms (deer, sheep, equipment, furniture)

• some nouns are used only in the plural forms (shorts, scissors, spectacles, pyjamas, trousers, jeans)

• some nouns are meant to be in plural form (mathematics, draughts, athletics, physics, news)

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Multiple Choice

Singular nouns refer to one object

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Choose singular nouns in the list below

• children

• apple

• oxen

• paper

Multiple Select

Choose proper nouns in the list below

• Encik Nasir

• Sanjay Dutt

• Taman Scientex

• chicken chop

Multiple Choice

Mr Richard has 4 good ___________

• sons in law

• son ins law

• son in laws