..nouns..

THE PARTS OF SPEECH

• Nouns
• Verb
• Adjectives
• Adverb
• Pronoun
• Preposition
• Conjunction

NOUNS

Noun is the name of a person, animal, place, thing, idea or emotion.

EXAMPLE

Persons : Wife, husband, Dila, teacher, pilot

Places : Office, classroom, Malaysia, Felda Pemanis

Things : Cup, food, book, car, umbrella

Animals : Cat, monkey, fish, frog, ant

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

COUNTABLE NOUNS are nouns that we can count.Example : boy, teacher, pilot, student, husband .etc

UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS are nouns that we can't count.Example : hair, sugar, rice, water, air .etc

SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS

Most countable nouns have singular had plural forms.Singular refers to one noun.Plural refers to more than one noun.

SINGULAR          PLURAL

- file                       - files

- animal                  - animals

- baby                    - babies

- city                      - cities

- box                     - boxes

POSSESSIVE NOUNS

The possessive form of a noun is used to show ownership.A noun is possessive if a phrase can be changed to say that an item or idea belongs to someone or something.

Example : Alia's car is new ( the new car belongs to Alia )