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Roper:: (1) Classifying Nouns
Roper:: (1) Classifying Nouns
Roper:: (1) Classifying Nouns
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.
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!