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NOUNS
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NOUNS
Nouns
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Categories of Nouns
Categorie
s
Examples
People
brother
neighbor
Places
Visible
Things
Ideas
town
Luzon
Bong
Revilla
Pampanga
food
chicken
water
equality
love
reward
reprimand
poverty
envy
liberty
condemnatio
Actions
n
Conditions
hunger
KINDS OF NOUNS
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A. Kinds of Nouns
CONCRETE
are
NOUNS
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A. Kinds of Nouns
ABSTRACT
name
NOUNS
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Concrete and Abstract Nouns
CONCRETE
student
fire fighter
dog
pencil
computer
ABSTRACT
intelligence
bravery
loyalty
eloquence
convenience
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A. Kinds of Nouns
COLLECTIVE
NOUNS
are
Example:
+COMMON AND
PROPER NOUNS
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B. Common and Proper Nouns
COMMON
NOUNS
Name
PROPER
Specific
NOUNS
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B. Common and Proper Nouns
COMMON NOUNS
Clothes
Shoes
School
Country
Girl
Boy
dog
PROPER NOUNS
Uniqlo
Rusty Lopez
PAC
Philippines
Lucy
Richard
Poodle
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GENDER OF NOUNS
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C. Gender of Nouns
MASCULINE
FEMININE
COMMON
NEUTER
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Here are some masculine
and feminine nouns for
people Male
Female
actor
actress
boy
girl
host
hostess
king
queen
nephew
niece
prince
princess
son
daughter
steward
stewardess
uncle
aunt
wizard
witch
policeman
policewoman
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Gender of Animals
Animal
Masculine
Feminine
bear
boar
sow
cat
tom
quenn
chicken
rooster
hen
duck
drake
duck
horse
stallion
mare
lion
lion
lioness
pig
boar
sow
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Here are some common
gender nouns that used for
both males and females
babies
dancers
students
parents
reporters
singers
engineers
lawyers
artists
teachers
hospital
school
knife
chair
cave
floor
phone
fire
pen
stick
NUMBER OF NOUNS
D. Number of Nouns
Nouns
Rule # 1: Add -s
Most
bag/bags
cat/cats
boy/boys
day/days
horse/horses
buzz/buzzes
dish/dishes
box/boxes
bush/bushes
witch/witches
switch/switches
daisy/daisies
spy/spies
lady/ladies
play/plays
joy/joys
valley/valleys
alley/alleys
volley/volleys
self/selves
sheaf/sheaves
wolf/wolves
shelf/shelves
thief/thieves
knife/knives
wife/wives
scarf/scarves
man/men
tooth/teeth
woman/women
ends in um
ends in a
bacterium/bacteria
datum/data
curriculum/curricula
medium/media
memorandum/memoranda
ovum/ova
symposium/symposia
erratum/errata
addendum/addenda
stratum/strata
ends in on
ends in a
criterion/criteria
phenomenon/phenomena
Nouns ending in -a
Singular
Plural
ends in a
ends in ae
alga/algae
amoeba/amoebae
larva/larvae
formula/formulae
antenna/antanna
nebula/nebulae
vertebra/vertebr
vita/vitae
ends in -ices:
appendix/appendices
index/indeces
matrix/matrices
vertex/vertices
vortex/vortices
apex/apices
cervix/cervices
axis/axes
ends in -i:
alumnus/alumni
bacillus/bacilli
cactus/cacti
focus/foci
stimulus/stimuli
focus/foci
octopus/octopi
radius/radii
stimulus/stimuli
terminus/termini
people
Pajamas
shorts
glasses
scissors
Mathematics
Physics
shorts
Aggregate Nouns
Some
accommodations
bread
amends
tea
archives
cheese
bowels
jam
communications
soup
congratulations
wood
thanks
water
goods
information
advice
knowledge
furniture
News
means
soap
series
species
barracks
crossroads
gallows
Headquarters
stairs
cotton
contents
snow
FOOD or FOODS?
Food
"Cheese
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CASES OF NOUNS
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Cases of Nouns
Case
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Cases of Nouns
SUBJECTIVE
It
CASE
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Cases of Nouns
OBJECTIVE
It
CASE
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Cases of Nouns
Possessive
It
Nouns