I. Kinds of Nouns 1. Proper Nouns – These name a specific person, place, or thing and alw, High school final essays of Philosophy

Download I. Kinds of Nouns 1. Proper Nouns – These name a specific person, place, or thing and alw and more High school final essays Philosophy in PDF only on Docsity! CHAPTER 1 The Different Parts of Speech Nouns Nouns are names of people, places, things, ideas, and events. I. Kinds of Nouns 1. Proper Nouns – These name a specific person, place, or thing and always start with a capital letter. e.g., Andrei, MSA, Philippines, December 2. Common Nouns – These are general names. e.g., writer, building, baby car 3. Mass Nouns – These cannot be directly counted and are taken as a whole. They cannot also be made plural by adding -s or -es at the end. e.g., salt, sugar, damage, water 4. Count Nouns – These are names that can be directly counted. They can also be made plural by adding -s or - es at the end. e.g., dress, piano, brush, can 5. Abstract Nouns – These are names of ideas, qualities, conditions, or emotions. They cannot also be made plural by adding -s or -es at the end. e.g., success, beauty, intelligence, happiness 6. Concrete Nouns – These can be perceived by any of the five senses. They can also be either count or mass nouns. e.g., chair, rain, lightning, food 7. Collective Nouns – These are names of groups of persons, things, or animals. e.g., band, flock, crowd, family 8. Compound Nouns – These are nouns that are made up of more than one word. e.g., 9. Adjectives that function as nouns – Adjectives may be considered nouns when they represent people. They come after the determiner “The” and verbs may immediately come after them. Also, they are used as subjects in sentences, plural verbs come after them. e.g., The determined succeed. The senator gave the jobless employment.  Mass, abstract, and some concrete nouns are considered Noncount. Refer to Appendix E for other examples of Mass Nouns and Count Nouns. II. Forms of Nouns Types of Compound Nouns Separated Hyphenated Combined police station bubble bath editor-in-chief hand-me-down ballpen seaman Nouns are easy to find in sentences because of their appearance. A word is a noun when: 1. It has a singular and plural form. (Refer to page 8 and Appendix A.) e.g. car cars mouse mouses 2. It has a gender, either male, female, or neither. (Refer to Appendix B.) e.g. 3. It has cases, namely the nominative (or subjective), the objective, and the possessive. It is only in the possessive case that the form of nouns changes. (Refer to page 6 for rules on possessive forms of nouns.) 4. It has endings of suffixes such as -age, -ce, -cy, -dom, - ion, -ism, -ity, -ment, -ness, -or, -ship, -sy, -tion, -ty, - ure. (Refer to Appendix C.) e.g. happiness equality kingdom agreement III. Identifying Nouns in Sentences There are other clues to know which words in the sentence are nouns. Nouns may be found: 1. After the determiners e.g. A student left his book on the table. 2. After the prepositions e.g. Nino ate the pie on the table. 3. Before and after verbs e.g. Reagon bought a car this morning. 4. After adjectives e.g. The old house was torn down last week. 5. After nouns or noun phrases e.g. I made a gift, a sweater, for Angela. IV. Noun Cases Case refers to how noun (pronouns) are used in sentences. The three cases are the nominative (or subjective), the objective, and the possessive. The table below shows the uses of these cases. Case Use Nominative Subject or Predicate Nominative Objective Direct Object, Indirect Object, or Object of a Preposition Possessive To show ownership Here are sentences showing the ways how nouns can be used. 1. As subject of a verb e.g. Flowers grow in the Garden Subject Verb 2. As predicate nominative (or complementing of a linking verb) male father female mother common parent neuter house