ENGLISH FOR SPECIFICS IN EDUCATION

Nouns
 the name of a person, thing, place, quality and idea
 it can be identified by its form, position in the sentence and by noun markers called
determiners, which include articles (a, an, the), the demonstratives (this, these, that,
those), and the possessives (my, your, his, her, its, our, their).
 Words ending with the following suffixes are nouns:
(- ity , - esence, - ness, - ment, - er (or), - ship, - tion, - ism, - hood)

Classes of Nouns
Nouns are conventionally classified as follows:
1. Proper nouns: name particular persons and places; they begin with capital letters usually
written without the, a, an before them.
Examples:
Additional Support Needs
Advanced Placement Program
Computer Based Learning
Future Problem Solving Program
Instructional Leadership
Knowledge Management

2. Common nouns: name members of a class of persons, places, or things.

Examples:
linguistics
classroom management
curriculum
dyslexia

3. Collective nouns: name a group as a unit.

Examples:
panel of judges/critics
class of students
staff of teachers

4. Concrete nouns: name things that can be perceived by the senses.

Examples:
instructional material
lesson plan
class record

5. Abstract nouns: name ideas, qualities, intangibles (not directly perceivable or readily
grasped).
Examples:
Synthesis
Evaluation
Assessment

6. Mass or non-countable nouns: name materials in general rather than materials in particular.
Examples:
Culture
Grammar
Homework

7. Counts nouns: name things that can be counted.

Examples:
computer
classroom, exam
8. Compound nouns: In written English these are combinations of two or more nouns or words
which are spelled as one word or hyphenated.
Examples:
schoolhouse
textbook
schoolwork