PAKUAN

UNIVERSITY
GRUP 1 :

1. EVA SOFIASARI (0621 16 0

NOUNS

2. DISKA WAHYUNINGTIAS
(0621 16 002)

3. AMINAH NURJANAH (0621

004)

WHAT IS NOUN?
name a person
animal
Word

Used to

place
thing
abstract idea

GENDER

Men, boys, and male animals are masculine

Brother, uncle, nephew, lord, duke, cock.

Women, girls, and female animals are feminine

Sister, aunt, niece, lady, duchess, hen.

Most nouns have the same form for masculine and feminine

Parent, child, cousin, author, painter, artist, rider, driver.

PLURALS
With ending o, or, ss, sh, ch, or x form their plural by adding es.

The plural of a
noun is usually
made by
adding s to
the singular.
Example :
dogs, days,
houses, truths.

Tomatoes, kisses, brushes, watches, boxes.

With ending y following a consonant form, drop the y and add ies.
Exceptions

Babies, ladies, countries, flies.

Twelve nouns ending in f or fe, drop the f or fe and add ves.

Wives, lives, knives, wolves, selves, calves, shelves, leaves, loaves, thieves, sheaves, halves.

PLURALS
A few names of fish or animals do not change in the plural
Sheep, deer, salmon, trout, fish, grouse.
The plural of a
noun is usually
made by
adding s to
the singular.
Example :
dogs, days,
houses, truths.

Few noun form their plural by vowel change.

Exceptions
Men, women, feet, mice, teeth.
Words which retain their original Greek or Latin forms, according to the rules of Greek
or Latin.
Agenda, agendum ; memoranda, memorandum ; data, datum ; basis, bases ; axis, axes.

NOTE :
THE PLURAL OF CHILD IS CHILDREN.

POSSESSIVE NOUNS

Noun or
pronoun

Changes it form
to show that it owns or is closely
related to something else

THE CASE ENDINGS FOR THE POSSESSIVE CASE :

s (apostrophe-s) is used with singular noun and plural nouns not ending in s.

Toms book ; the boys room ; the mans hat ; the mens hat.

A simple apostrophe () is used with plural nouns ending in s.

The girls school ; the dogs kennels.

Note : you can form the possessive case of a singular noun ending in s, by adding an apostrophe () alone or by
adding an apostrophe and s. Example : the buss seats are comfortable ; the bus seats are comfortable.

TYPES OF NOUNS
THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS :
Noun Type

Examples

Common nouns name people, places or things that arent

specific

Man, table, dog, mountain, ocean,

country, building

Proper nouns name specific people, places or things

Walt Disney, Mount Kilimanjaro, Atlantic

Ocean

Abstract nouns name nouns that you cant perceive with

your five sense

Love, happiness, pride, fear, religion,

history

Concrete nouns name nouns that you can perceive with

your five sense

House, photograph, eyes, light, sun,

flower

Countable nouns name nouns that you can count

Bed, cat, movie, train, country, book,

phone, speaker

Uncountable nouns name nouns that you cant count

Milk, rice, snow, rain, water, food

Compounds nouns are made up by two or more words

Tablecloth, eyeglasses, sunlight,

snowflake

Collective nouns refer to things or people as a unit

Bunch, audience, flock, team, group,

family, band

Singular nouns name one person, place, thing or idea

Cat, sock, ship, hero, monkey, baby

THANK YOU