Chapter One: Nouns, Determiners, and Quantifiers

Question 1

what is a Noun ?

Answer 1

A noun is a word that represents a person, place, or thing

Question 2

what is Proper nouns

Answer 2

always capitalized, name a specific person or thing like Maria or Paris.

Question 3

what is Common nouns?

Answer 3

Common nouns represent things in general, like girl or city. Many of these
nouns represent things we can count, like pens and people

Question 4

what are countable nouns ?

Answer 4

countable nouns represent things that are concrete and tangible.
Countable nouns are words that stand for people, places, or things that we can
look at and count when there are more than one.

Question 5

what are Common Nouns

Answer 5

Words for people, places and things are called common nouns.

Question 6

what are Proper Nouns

Answer 6

The names of particular people, places and things

Question 7

Is Afghans noun or proper noun?

Answer 7

proper noun

Question 8

Is Pakistan noun or proper noun?

Answer 8

proper noun

Question 9

Is cat noun or proper noun?

Answer 9

noun

Question 10

when do we use singular nouns?

Answer 10

when we are talking about just one thing or person

Question 11

when do we use plural nouns?

Answer 11

when we are talking about two or more people or places or things

Question 12

what is the plural of chair

Answer 12

chairs

Question 13

what is the plural of insect

Answer 13

insects

Question 14

What are articles or determiners?

Answer 14

An articles or determiners are words that are used to indicate that a noun is a noun without describing it. For example, in the sentence Nick bought a dog, the article a indicates that the word dog is a noun.

Question 15

name vowels

Answer 15

a, e, i, o and u

Question 16

when does the article an is used?

Answer 16

The article an is used before nouns that begin with the vowels a, e, i, o and u.
an artist
an eye
an insect
an oven
an umbrella

Question 17

Nouns that end in s, ss, ch, sh or x, are made plural by adding what ?

Answer 17

es.
for example:
bus : buses
glass : glasses
box : boxes

Question 18

how do Most nouns that end in y are made plural?

Answer 18

by changing the y to i and
adding es.
baby : babies
fairy : fairies
city : cities

Question 19

Nouns that have a vowel before the y are made plural by simply adding what letter at the end?

Answer 19

S
key : keys
toy : toys
tray : trays
valley : valleys