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Nouns - Nguyễn Lê Cẩm Tú - 2167010078
Nouns - Nguyễn Lê Cẩm Tú - 2167010078
people, things,
● a noun which is the name of a particular person, animals, places, abstractions
place, or thing
Proper nouns
● spelt with a capital letter
can be subject, object,
Ex: Paris, Thomas,...
or complement
a physical
Vowel change mouse ➔ mice, tooth ➔ teeth
thing, rather than a
quality, state, or action Concrete nouns (cụ thể)
Ex: book, house, Same forms aircraft, sheep, headquarters
machine
● –en: ox ➔ oxen
Common nouns
a quality, state, ● –is ➔ –es: crisis ➔ crises
(not the name of
or action Abstract nouns (Trừu ● –us ➔ –i: nucleus ➔ nuclei
a particular person, Irregular plural endings
Ex: happiness, idea, tượng) ● –a ➔ –ae: antenna ➔ antennae
place, or thing.)
punishment ● –um ➔ –a: millennium ➔ millennia
● –on ➔ –a: phenomenon ➔ phenomena
Measure partitives: a
yard of cloth, an acre of Nouns with two plural ● brother ➔ brothers /
land forms, each with a brethren
different ● index ➔ indexes / indices
● phrases used to express quantity and How high is a tree?
meaning ● penny ➔ pennies / pence
Typical partitives: a used with an uncountable noun 1 meter
slice of cake, a stick of ● are always countable Partitive nouns (Bộ 2 meters
chalk ● can be used with both countable and phận) Plurality ● damage vs. damages 1.5 meter/meters
NOUNS
Nouns with a different
uncountable nouns ● saving vs. savings 0.5 meter/meters
meaning for the plural
Ex: a loaf of bread a packet of biscuits ● experience vs.
General partitives: a form
experiences
piece of paper/cake, a
bit of cheese/
cloth 1.0 points, 0.0001 degrees
decimals
0.75 (zero point seven five)