Chapter One: Nouns, Determiners, and Quantifiers Flashcards
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what is a Noun ?
A noun is a word that represents a person, place, or thing
what is Proper nouns
always capitalized, name a specific person or thing like Maria or Paris.
what is Common nouns?
Common nouns represent things in general, like girl or city. Many of these
nouns represent things we can count, like pens and people
what are countable nouns ?
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.
what are Common Nouns
Words for people, places and things are called common nouns.
what are Proper Nouns
The names of particular people, places and things
Is Afghans noun or proper noun?
proper noun
Is Pakistan noun or proper noun?
proper noun
Is cat noun or proper noun?
noun
when do we use singular nouns?
when we are talking about just one thing or person
when do we use plural nouns?
when we are talking about two or more people or places or things
what is the plural of chair
chairs
what is the plural of insect
insects
What are articles or determiners?
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.
name vowels
a, e, i, o and u
when does the article an is used?
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
Nouns that end in s, ss, ch, sh or x, are made plural by adding what ?
es.
for example:
bus : buses
glass : glasses
box : boxes
how do Most nouns that end in y are made plural?
by changing the y to i and
adding es.
baby : babies
fairy : fairies
city : cities
Nouns that have a vowel before the y are made plural by simply adding what letter at the end?
S
key : keys
toy : toys
tray : trays
valley : valleys
