Презентация на тему The noun

notion “noun” denote?
2. What morphological characteristics are typical to

the noun?
3. Which kinds of nouns do you know?
Give the characteristics (class, collective, material, etc)
4. Which morphological composition may the noun have?
5. Which noun forming suffixes do you know?
6. Which ways can the compound nouns be built?

OF WORDS WHICH DENOTE SUBSTANCE

are typical to the noun?
2. Which kinds of

nouns do you know?
Give the characteristics (class, collective, material, etc)
3. Which morphological composition may the noun have?
4. Which noun forming suffixes do you know?
5. Which ways can the compound nouns be built?

category denoting quantity of objects)
Singular - Plural
CASE(nounal grammatical

category expressing syntactical relations between nouns)
Common –Possessive

nouns do you know?
Give the characteristics (class, collective, material,

etc)
3. Which morphological composition may the noun have?
4. Which noun forming suffixes do you know?
5. Which ways can the compound nouns be built?

the noun denotes…)

THE STRUCTURE
(how the noun is formed…)

THE

POSSIBILITY TO COUNT
(if it is possible to count the noun or not..)

–inanimate (non-human)
abstract –concrete nouns
material –physical

BE APPLIED TO ANY

INDIVIDUAL OF A CLASS OF

PEOPLE (OR THINGS) –CLASS NOUNS

COLLECTION OF THE SIMILAR PEOPLE OR THINGS REGARDED AS A SINGLE UNIT- COLLECTIVE NOUNS

to a certain class
(ANIMATE –INANIMATE)

COLLECTIVE denote a number

of similar people or things collected together and taken in as a single unit

SINGLE OBJECT (parts) –in the singular only (machinery, foliage)

SINGLE UNIT (plenty items of the similar looks) – in the plural only (poultry, cattle, people, police, gentry, clergy)

SINGLE INSTITUTION (plenty but united by one goal, or place)- depends on the meaning (family, team, crowd, government, export)

the things

having concrete physical form –CONCRETE NOUNS
Non

having physical form – ABSTRACT
Only in the singular

COLLECTIVE –CLASS
object

AN- INANIMATE
unit AB – CONCRETE
institution MAT- PHYS

AH????

may the noun have?
5. Which noun forming suffixes do

you know?
6. Which ways can the compound nouns be built?

suffix or prefix+root+suffix )

COMPOUND (more than one stem)

suffixes do you know?
6. Which ways can the compound

nouns be built?

economist
ess: actress, tigress
ness: happiness
ism : humanism


UNPRODUCTIVE
SUFFIXES

hood: manhood
dom: kingdom
ship:

friendship
ment: development
ance: importance
ence: dependence
ty: cruelty, novelty
Ity: nobility, generosity

NOUN
Black+bird, blue+bell

VERB(AL)+ NOUN
PICKPOCKET, DINING-ROOM

VERB+NON NOUN
FORGET-ME-NOT
IN A WORD
(schoolgirl,

textbook)

IN A HYPHEN (dining-room, mother- in – law)

NOUNL DIVISION?

used only in the singular form)

PLURALIA TANTUM (the nouns

used only in he plural form)

academic subjects ending –s

Games, ending –s

diseases

конфета)
coffee –a coffee (кофе\ чашка кофе) 

history –a history(история\

отдельно взятая история) 
lamb –a lamb(ягнятина\ ягненок) 

duke-duchess

baron-baronesse
lad- maid
monk –nun
emperor- empress
bachelor -spinster
tzar- tzarina

bull-cow-calf
cock-hen-chick(chicken)
dog-bitch-puppy
gander-goose –gosling
drake –duck –ducking
boar-sow-piglet
buck –doe-fawn
stallion –mare- foal
fox-vixen-cub
stag- hind-fawn