Презентация на тему The noun

Nouns

Proper Common
(London, John, Monday, May)


Class Nouns of Collective Abstract
(dog, table) material (family) (idea)
(snow, iron)

Genders

of nouns


Masculine Feminine Neutral
he she it
(men, boys, (women, girls, (things, babies,
animals when animals when animals when
we know their we know their we don’t know
sex) sex, countries, their sex)
ships, vehicles
when regarded with affection)

have the same form whether they are male or

female (teacher, student).

Some nouns have different forms:
actor – actress groom – bride
waiter – waitress host – hostess
widower – widow steward – stewardess
prince – princess hero – heroine
duke – duchess king – queen
monk – nun heir - heiress

-(a)ion, -tion, -sion,
-hood, -dom, -ship, -ment, -ance, -ence,

-ty, -ity, -ure,
-age, -y, -ee, -ian, -al, -sis, -cy

The most common prefixes:
re-, co-, dis-, mis-, over-, under-, sub-, inter-

Compound nouns:
one word (classroom), two words (CD player), hyphen (game-tester)

Nouns

Countable Uncountable
denote things that denote things we
can be counted can’t count

can take singular and always take singular
plural verbs; verbs;
go with –a,-an,-my/his/ don’t go with –a,-an,
her/your/its/our/their, one/two…, these/
-this/these/that/those those

as tea, coffee, etc.
when we order smth. in

a restaurant, etc.

uncountable in English but countable in Russian:

advice (совет), news (новости), money (деньги), information (сведения), progress (успех), travel (путешествие), trouble (проблема), hair (волосы), success (успех), toast (гренки), applause (аплодисменты), knowledge (знания), evidence (признак, свидетельство),spaghetti (спагетти), failure (неудача), fruit (фрукты), etc.

be used as countable or uncountable with a difference

in meaning:
a glass(стакан), glasses(очки), a paper(газета), papers(документы), a hair(волосина),
an iron(утюг), a wood(лес), times(разы), experiences(события), works(произведения), a chicken ( the animal), a toast (тост), a help (помощник), a gossip (сплетник), cheeses/fruits and other words denoting different sorts of a given material or food, etc.

can be made countable by adding a partitive:

a piece of, a bottle of, a sheet of, a box of, a slice of, a loaf of, a bit of, a kilo of, a tube of, a plate of, etc.
Always look it up in the dictionary!

noun
-es to nouns ending in –s, -ss, -x, -ch,

-sh, -z
-ies to nouns ending in consonant + y
-es to nouns ending in consonant + o ( But –s if they are abbreviations (photos, kilos, autos, etc.), musical instruments (pianos), proper nouns (Eskimos). Some nouns ending in –o can take either –s or –es ( buffalo, mosquito, volcano, tornado, zero, etc.
-ves to some nouns ending in –f/-fe (calves, halves, knives, leaves, selves, thieves, wolves, wives, etc.) But: beliefs, chiefs, cliffs, handkerchiefs, scarfs/scarves, hoofs/hooves, roofs, safes)
Greek or Latin suffixes ( basis- bases, crisis- crises, terminus- termini, criterion- criteria, phenomenon- phenomena, stimulus- stimuli, datum- data, medium- media, formula- formulae, index- indices, antenna- antennae, etc.)

–s/-es to the second noun. But to the first

noun if it is followed by a preposition ( mothers-in-law, passers-by). At the end of the compound if it doesn’t include any nouns (letdowns).
Irregular plurals: man- men (but: Walkmans), woman- women, foot- feet, tooth- teeth, mouse- mice, louse- lice, child- children, goose- geese, sheep- sheep, deer- deer, fish- fish, trout- trout, cod- cod, salmon- salmon, ox- oxen, spacecraft- spacecraft, aircraft- aircraft, hovercraft- hovercraft, means- means, species- species, swine- swine, dozen- dozen ( but: in dozens), score- score (but: scores of people), series – series, rendezvous- rendezvous.

forms with: nouns which refer to school subjects (maths,

politics), sports (athletics), games (billiards, dominoes, darts, draughts), illnesses (measles, mumps); when we talk about an amount of money, a time period, weight, distance, etc. ( Five thousand pounds was donated to build a new hospital wing. Two weeks isn’t long to wait. Ten miles is a long way to ride.); with group nouns when we mean the group as a unit ( jury, family, team, group, crew, crowd, class, audience, committee, council, army, club, press, government, company, staff, etc.)

forms with: nouns which refer to objects that consist

of two parts ( trousers, binoculars, shorts, pyjamas, tights, glasses, earrings, scissors, compasses, scales, tongs, jeans, spectacles, etc.); nouns such as: clothes, police, stairs, looks, surroundings, outskirts, premises, earnings, wages, cattle, poultry, congratulations, thanks, riches, goods, contents, oats, potatoes, carrots, onions ( but: a potato/a carrot/ an onion); group nouns when we mean the individuals.
These nouns are plural in Russian but both singular and plural in English: watch- watches, clock- clocks, gate- gates, sledge- sledges, vacation- vacations
( Our summer vacation lasts 2 months. We have 2 vacations a year.)