Tuesday 8 September 2015

Learning Nouns through video

Watch this video to learn and understand more about nouns through this video. :)

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Tuesday 1 September 2015

Exercises

Practice makes perfect, right ? Why don't you try some exercises below ?

Click here for some fun exercises.

Click here and here for countable and uncountable nouns exercises.

Go here for some more exercises related to grammar.

And last but not least, go here for some printable exercises. :)


Types of nouns

Nouns can be divided into different types :

  • Common nouns
    • refer to general names of people, animals, things and places.
    • examples : man, police, bird, glass, room
  • Proper nouns
    • refer to specific persons, places and things.
    • The first letter of such noun is always in capital letters.
    • examples : Nurul Hidayah, Barden University, Klinik Putra
  • Uncountable nouns
    • nouns which have only one form and take a singular verb.
    • They are the material things in life which are uncountable.
    • examples : water, hair, information, sugar, news, furniture
  • Concrete nouns
    • things that you can see, touch, hear and smell.
    • They are used with the articles a, an and the.
    • They can take the singular or plural form.
    • examples : chair, computer, calculator, smoke, fire, salt
  • Abstract nouns
    • abstract in nature
    • examples qualities such as love, hatred, sincerity and conditions such as poverty and sickness
  • Collective nouns
    • stands for a number of persons or things as a single unit.
    • examples : furniture, people, crowd

What are nouns ?


The picture above shows some examples of nouns. A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, state or action.