Friday 5 October 2012

Noun part1

Noun

žThe word "noun" derives from the Latin nomen meaning "name", and a traditional definition of nouns is that they are all and only those expressions that refer to a person, place, thing, event, substance, quality or idea.
žA noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase.
Noun can be divided into two,which is singular noun and plural noun.ž
SINGULAR NOUNS 
Example : girl, boy, book
PLURAL NOUNS
a) Regular — ends in
s
example: student - students
b)
Irregular — change in vowel
example: woman— women

- SAME SINGULAR AND PLURAL  NOUNS
example: a sheep — two sheep
a fish—many fish 

Singular noun (regular)
-student
Plural noun

-students

Singular noun(irregular)
-Woman
Plural noun(irregular)
-Women
















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