Types of nouns (1)

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1. Countables

1.1. Description

1.1.1. Things that can be counted as individual units.

1.1.1.1. Characteristics

1.1.1.1.1. This nouns have singular and plural form

1.1.1.1.2. They can be used with **a/an** and with numbers and many other determiners (e.g. these, a few):

2. Proper

2.1. Description

2.1.1. It is a specific name for a particular person, place, or thing.

2.1.1.1. Characteristics

2.1.1.1.1. The use of inicial capitals in spelling

3. Common

3.1. Description

3.1.1. It refers to general objects, places, people, and animals of the same class where they don't have specific names.

3.1.1.1. Characteristics

3.1.1.1.1. Are only capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. They can be modified by articles, determiners, and adjectives

4. Compound

4.1. Description

4.1.1. Words that contain more than one morpheme

4.1.1.1. Example

4.1.1.1.1. Classroom, housekeeper

5. Package

5.1. Collective

5.1.1. Refer to gropus of people, animals or thing

5.1.1.1. Example

5.1.1.1.1. Army, audience, family

5.2. Unit

5.2.1. cut up a generalized mass or substance into individual units or pieces. They are usually followed by of + an uncountable noun.

5.2.1.1. Example

5.2.1.1.1. A bit of cake, a slice of bread.

5.3. Quantifying

5.3.1. They are used to refer to quantities, which are usually in a following of phrase containing either a plural noun or an uncountable noum

5.3.1.1. Types

5.3.1.1.1. Plural numeral nouns

5.3.1.1.2. Nouns for large quantities

5.4. Species

5.4.1. Species nouns are often followed by an of-phrase, but they refer to the type rather than the quantity of something

5.4.1.1. Example

5.4.1.1.1. phrases: sort of, kinds of, types of, class of and species of.

6. Uncountables

6.1. Description

6.1.1. Nouns cannot be divided, so they cannot be counted.

6.1.1.1. Characteristics:

6.1.1.1.1. They normally don’t use the articles **a/an** and don’t have plural forms

6.1.1.1.2. Some uncountable nouns have a countable equivalent

6.1.1.1.3. They are always singular

7. Concrete

7.1. Description

7.1.1. Refer to physical entities or substances

7.1.1.1. Contable concrete nouns refer to persons, objects, places

7.1.1.1.1. E.g. student, chair

7.1.1.2. Uncontable concrete nouns refer to substances, material, liquids, gases

7.1.1.2.1. E. g. Steel, water, air

8. Abstract

8.1. Description

8.1.1. Refer to abstracions such as events, states, times and qualities.

8.1.1.1. Example

8.1.1.1.1. Giant, niche & markets