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PREPARED BY JAMIL ISTIFAN M-DCC, ESL & FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPT.

NOUNS. PREPARED BY JAMIL ISTIFAN M-DCC, ESL & FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPT. Introduction. NOUNS ARE 2 GROUPS: 1- COUNT NOUNS (or Countable Nouns) 2- NON-COUNT NOUNS (sometimes called Uncountable or Mass Nouns). Count Nouns. Refer to persons, places, or things that can be counted, e. g.:

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PREPARED BY JAMIL ISTIFAN M-DCC, ESL & FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPT.

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  1. NOUNS PREPARED BY JAMIL ISTIFAN M-DCC, ESL & FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPT.

  2. Introduction • NOUNS ARE 2 GROUPS: • 1- COUNT NOUNS (or Countable Nouns) • 2- NON-COUNT NOUNS (sometimes called Uncountable or Mass Nouns)

  3. Count Nouns Refer to persons, places, or things that can be counted, e. g.: One boy, two boys One city, three cities One pen, five pens Count nouns that are not known for the first time should be preceded by ‘a’, ‘an’, or another noun marker.

  4. ‘a’ & ‘an’ Meaning: “one among many”, or “anyone”. ‘a’ is used before a consonant, e.g.: a pen, a hand, a used book,… ‘an’ is used before a vowel, e.g.: an apple, an honest person,…

  5. Don’t use ‘a’, ‘an’ with non-count nouns • To express certain amount, use quantifiers with non-count nouns,e.g.: • Less meat, violence • Little knowledge, time • Much/lot of, pollution, rain • Some tea, coffee, news, work • Enough bread, wood, money

  6. Other use with non-count nouns • a bottle of water, coke • a carton of milk, yogurt • a pound of sugar, butter • a loaf of bread • a slice of cheese, bacon, bread • a clove of garlic • a head of cabbage, lettuce • a squeeze of lemon

  7. No plural forms for non-count nouns • Neither should be used with quantifiers indicating plurality (such as several, many, a couple of, a number of,…) • Peter needs some information -s about the computer. • Peter makes many much money in the stock-market.

  8. Common non-count nouns FOOD: Meat, cheese, butter, candy, cabbage, lettuce, parsley, chicken, rice, sugar, spaghetti, salt,... LIQUID: milk, juice, yogurt, tea, coffee, water, wine, blood, gasoline… NON-FOOD SUBSTANCES: snow, rain, air, paper, sand, wood, money, cement, gold, silver,…

  9. Other non-count nouns • ABSTRACT NOUNS: advice, health, honesty, beauty, evidence, knowledge, information, happiness, poverty, satisfaction, courage, intelligence, music, peace, luck, fun, progress, truth,… • OTHERS: biology, English, Spanish, homework, furniture, violence, pollution, tennis, soccer, fog, hail, thunder, research, luggage, jewelry, traffic, grass, driving, studying… • THE END

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