Definisi dan Klasifikasi Nouns

What is NOUNS?

NOUNS is any word that describes a person, place, or thing. 

IDENTIFICATION OF NOUN

• Concrete Nouns
• Absract Nouns                    

Concrete Nouns

•           Definition:

            Noun which is any word that describes a person, place, or thing can be captured by the five senses so you can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel the item.

•           Kinds of Concreate Nouns:

-          Common Nouns

            Noun that indicate the type,class of object or place or etc.

            examples : car,man, bridge etc.

                                    The cat loves comfort

-          Proper Nouns

            Noun that the name of thing, place or etc , that specific only for it

            Proper Noun always begins with capital letter.

            examples : Africa, Andy, Indonesia etc.

                                    English is a global language

-          Collective Nouns

            Noun which can take a singular form but are composed of more than one individual person or items  .

            examples : Team,Jury,committee etc.

                                    I saw a herd of sheep nearby

-          Material Nouns

            Noun that indicate the names of objects that happen by itself not human made.

            examples : gold, water,fish,iron etc.

                                      The chair is made of bamboo.

-          Compound noun

            Noun which is a combination of of two or more words.

            examples : Mother-in-law, paper-clip,etc.

                                       She is my mother in law

Abstract Nouns

•         Definition:

            Noun which is any word that describes a person, place, or thing can’t be captured by the five senses.    

            Many are derived from adjectives and verbs and have characteristic endings such as –ity, -ness, -ence,  and -tion.

•         such as difference , purity , composition , happiness

COUNTABLE NOUN VS UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

Countable Noun : Things that you can count a(n), the, some, any this, that, these, those none, one, two, three,  . . . many a lot of a large/great number of a few fewer . . . than more  . . . than

Uncountable Noun : Things that you can’t count the, some, any this, that none much(usually in negative or question) a lot of a large amount of a little less . . . than more . . . than

Countable nouns

Use these tests for countable nouns:

• Countable (or just “count”) nouns can be made plural: a tree… two trees; a man… men; a pony… ponies.
• In the singular, they may have the determiner a or an: a sausage; an asterisk.
• We ask: How many words/pages/chairs?
• We say: A few minutes/friends/chips?
• examples : Book – books, Pen- pens, Window-windows

Uncountable nouns

Use these tests for uncountable nouns:

• Uncountable (or non-count) nouns cannot be made plural. We cannot say: two funs, three advices or five furnitures.
• We never use  a or an with them.
• We ask: How much money/time/milk?        (Not How many?)
• We say: A little help/effort. (Not A few.)
• examples :water, rice, heat, soccer, lucky, air, ice, dust