1-nouns dcefinition uses and examples ppt
- 3. Happiness Health Success Love Goals Point out the difference among the nouns below
- 4. Nouns are the largest word class A noun refers to a person, animal or thing Most nouns are common nouns, referring to classes or categories of people, animals and things
- 5. They are written with a capital letter at the start. Proper nouns are the names of specific people, animals and things. Concrete nouns refer to material objects which we can see or touch Such as ideas, feelings and situations Abstract nouns refer to things which are not material objects
- 6. We use suffixes to make new words We can add a suffix to a verb and create a noun – adding ‘-ion’ to the verb ‘act’ gives us the noun ‘action.’ For example Act -ion + Verb Suffix Action
- 7. Suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word Suffixes are commonly used to show the part of speech of a word A noun, adjective, verb, etc Suffixes also tell us whether the words are plural or singular
- 8. D Suffix Example -ant assistant, participant -ee attendee, referee, grantee -ent correspondent, respondent -(e)er engineer, manager -ian librarian, historian -ic mechanic, paramedic -ician mathematician, politician -or supervisor, survivor Suffix Example -age mileage, percentage -al disposal, proposal -ance/-ence appearance, attendance, dependence -ation information, transformation -dom freedom, kingdom -iety society, variety -ism capitalism, idealism (philosophies) -ity density, diversity -ment agreement, statement -ness usefulness, weakness
- 9. The short answer is: yes!
- 10. We also know that verbs are action words We use verbs to describe what nouns do
- 11. I like to play in the park with my friends. Play is a verb in this sentence. We’re going to see a play tonight at the theater. Play is a noun in this sentence.
- 12. Since there’s a lack of water coming from the rain, I started watering my plants daily. Water My mom boxes everything she sees in huge boxes of differente colors. Box
- 13. There has been a lot of work at the place I work for. Work After my asma attack, the doctor decided to attack the problem with new types of medicine. Attack
- 14. Though the boy tried to use his broken alarm clock as an excuse, the teacher would not excuse his absence on the day of the final exam. Excuse We haven’t been able to hug due to the pandemic, but lots of hugs will be given when the situation is over. Hug
- 15. They have a singular and a plural form. The singular form can use the determiner "a" or "an". Countable nouns are for things we can count using numbers It's important to distinguish between countable and uncountable nouns in English because their usage is different in regard to both determiners and verbs
- 16. Abstract ideas Qualities Physical objects that are too small or too amorphous to be counted (liquids, powders, gases, etc.) They may be the names for: Uncountable nouns are for the things that we cannot count with numbers They usually do not have a plural form Uncountable nouns are used with a singular verb
- 17. D Countable nouns examples Person one person, two people... Book one book, two books Idea one idea, two ideas Dog one dog, two dogs Car one car, two cars House one house, two houses Goal one goal, two goals Uncountable nouns examples Furniture pieces, types of Advice pieces, types of Money currencies Coffee cups of – liters of Bread rolls, loaves, buns of Equipment pieces, types of Love types of
- 18. To answer the questions How much?, How many?, how little?, how few? Picking the right quantifier Friends, cups, people Certain quantifiers can be used with countable nouns Sugar, tea, money Others with uncountable nouns
- 19. D Countable How many? How few? Both Uncountable How Much? How little? Many (big quantities) A lot of Much ( big quantities) Few / a few / very few/ fewer (menos) Lots of Little / a little / very little/ less ( menos) A number of Plenty of A bit of Several (a good quantity) Enough A great deal of A majority of All A good amount of A great number of Some
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