Roper:: (1) Classifying Nouns

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Proper: specifc names for persons (Jack, Rose..) places (Egypt, Paris..

) things (the Nile, Eiffel tower) they are always Capitalized,


(1) proper nouns includes the Months, days, holidays, titles of people (King, Queen..) titles of works (books, movies..) Brand and company names (Adidas..)

Classifying
Nouns Common: general names that can be either Concrete (as book, parfume, body, music) or Abstract as (love, freedom, freindship, peace..)

both concrete and abstract can be either count (hospital/ emergency) or uncount (water/information), liquids and substances are usual uncount.

person number gender case


(2) First person ( I, we) uncount ( no number) masculine Nominative case (subject)

Properties Second person (you) count are either: feminine Objective case (object)

Of nouns Third person (he, she,it, they) singular or plural Neuter Possessive case (‘ / ..of..)

S = Subject: the performer of an action (before verb) e,g: Jim reads a book / the bird flied/ we live here.
Od = direct Object: answers whom or what (after verb) e.g: she loves ahmed / I don’t like tea / help me!
functions a noun or pronoun OI = indirect Object: receives the Od: e.g: He gives her a gift/ send me a car/ I offered the man a job
Of nouns can be used as Op = Object of prepositon: whom or what after prp: He gives a gift to her / send a car for me / I offered a job to the man.

(3) Cs = Subject complement: follows a copulative verb: messi became a star / he is a great man
Co = Objective complement: tells what the direct object has turned to:
e.g they elected Baiden a president / he is hired as teacher/ I don’t condiser Lamjarad a singer!

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