NOUNS

NOUNS

By AIDA SERMEñO

NOUNS

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Nouns can be classified into: proper, common, concrete, abstract, countable, uncountable, and compound.

Each of this categories follow certain rules to form those nouns.​

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​COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

Countable nouns: follow rules of pluralization

Fly---Flies

wife---wives

referendum--referenda

Sheep-- sheep

cactus--cacti

boss-- bosses

wolf--wolves ​

bacterium--bacteria

deer--- deer

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Provide more examples of your own

are formed in 3 different ways:

• ​separated by spaces

• hyphanated nouns

• solid nouns​

​Compound nouns

Provide examples for each of those categories

Multiple Choice

Look at these compound words.

Select the one which represents a compound noun.

• flamboyant

• takeout

• take out

• undercooked

Multiple Choice

Blake Mycoskie is an American businessperosn. He started a shoe company called TOMS in 2006.

How many proper names are there in this sentence?

• 1

• 3

• 2

• 5

Multiple Choice

Blake Mycoskie is an American businessperson. He started a shoe company called TOMS in 2006.

How many compound nouns do we have in this sentence?

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 1

Fill in the Blank

Write in the box the proper nouns you find in this sentences.

He sells a special type of shoe, the Alpargata. He discovered the shoe in Argentina.

Multiple Choice

I was in my bedroom and my boyfriend called me to join an afterparty event. Then, the group was heading to the beach to behold the sunrise. I rejected the invitation.

Click on the number of compound nouns found in the sentences above .

• 4

• 3

• 2

• 5

Multiple Choice

Recently, experts have discovered alink between children going barefoot and getting certain diseases.

What are the characteristics of the highlighted word in the above sentence.

• Concrete, abstract noun

• Countable abstract noun

• Proper concrete countable noun

• common countable concrete noun