If You Were a Noun (Word Fun)
Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day

Nouns – are name words, could be name of persons, places, things or events.

 

 

SAMPLE STORY – “Events”

It was Pet’s Day in school. The 2nd grade pupils took their favorite animal pets to school. The classes had a Show-and-Tell Time. Most of the pupils had pet dogs. A few had a pet, birds. The birds were in little cages. A boy showed and talked about his pet hamster. How happy the children were on Pet’s Day.

 

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PLURAL NOUNS ENDING WITH -S AND -ES

 

Nouns can be ONE or MORE THAN ONE.

Singular Nouns – Nouns that mean only ONE person, place, thing, animal or event.

Plural Nouns – Nouns that mean MORE THAN ONE/Several names of persons, places, things, animals or events.

 

 

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RULES IN PLURALIZING NOUNS:

  SINGULAR                                                   TO FORM PLURAL  

1. Most singular nouns                                                      Add -s

Ex. plate-plates, melon-melons

2. Nouns ending with -s, -ss, -x, -z, -ch, -sh                   Add -es

Ex. bush-bushes, match-matches

3. Nouns ending with a consonant and y                    Change y to i and add -es

Ex. bunny-bunnies, fairy-fairies

4. Nouns ending with a vowel and y                           Add -s

Ex. boy-boys, key-keys

5. Nouns ending with -f or -fe                                       Add -s to most nouns,

Change f to v and -es to other nouns

Ex. wife-wives, belief-beliefs

6. Nouns ending with a vowel and o                           Add -s

Ex. video-videos, radio-radios

7. Nouns ending with a consonant and o                  Generally add -s, but

sometimes -es

Ex. potato-potatoes, piano-pianos

On the other hand, these rules may not be applicable to some other nouns – the “Irregular Nouns”.

 

TIPS IN FORMING THE PLURALS OF IRREGULAR NOUNS

 

Parts of Speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, determiners, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions & interjections

1. Changing some letters in the singular form.

Examples:

man-men                                            goose-geese

woman-women                                   tooth-teeth

foot-feet                                              louse-lice

2. Add some letters to the singular form.

Examples:

child-children

ox-oxen

3. Some irregular nouns have the same singular and plural forms.

Examples:

sheep-sheep                                        furniture-furniture

Chinese- Chinese                                salmon-salmon

cattle-cattle                                        equipment-equipment

KINDS OF NOUNS

Proper Nouns – are particular/specific names of persons, places, things or events.

They are always capitalized.

Common Nouns – general names of persons, places, things or events.

They are not capitalized, except if they begin a sentence.

Examples:

 

GENDER OF NOUNS

Chapter 4 – Nouns Have Genders

Gender– is the quality of a noun that distinguishes sex.

There are three genders involved: Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter.

Masculine – denotes the male sex.

Feminine – denotes the female sex.

Neuter – does not denote any of the sexes.

Examples:

 NOUN COUNTERS

Noun Counters – are signal words that pluralize nouns.

Lists of Noun Counters:

• many
• several
• a few
• a dozen
• some

Examples:

1. Many students are at the campsite.
2. Several children are cleaning the place.
3. A hundred scouts are going to the camp.
4. A dozen campers are girls.
5. Ten campers have been assigned to check on the cleanliness in the camp.

Count Nouns, Non-count Nouns and Partitives

Count Nouns – Nouns that can be counted.

Non-count Nouns – Nouns that cannot be counted and it is also called Mass Nouns

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Collective Nouns

Collective Nouns – are name of groups of people, places, and animals.

Collective Nouns for People

• army
• orchestra
• choir
• band
• group
• class
• audience
• chorus

Collective Nouns for Places – require to use article “the”

• the United Kingdom
• the United Sates of America
• the Alps
• the Canary Islands
• the Great Lakes

Collective Nouns for Animals

• a flock of birds, chickens
• a school of fish
• a pride of lions
• a hive of bees
• a swarm of ants, bees, flies
• a herd of cattle, sheep, goats