English Noun definition
A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Common nouns refer to any person, place, thing, idea, etc.
boy house water town religion despair - Proper nouns refer to particular places, people, objects, ideas, etc.
George the White House Paris Christian Science New York
Nouns are used as the subjects of sentences, and as the objects of the verbs and prepositions.
Noun: Singular and Plural – Countable and Uncountable
Nouns can be classified into 2 groups: countable nouns which can be counted and which take an “s” to form plural and uncountable nouns which cannot be counted and which usually donot take an “s” and has only singular form .
Singular and Plural Nouns
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Countable nouns: | a book | books |
| one boy | two boys | |
| Uncountable nouns: | information / water / salt / rice | |
To Form a plural noun:
- Add “-s” to form a plural is most common
book – books
teacher – teachers - Add “-es” to nouns that end in -ch,-s, -sh, -x and -z
a watch – 2 watches
a bus – 2 buses
a brush – 2 brushes
a box – 2 boxes - Change “-y” into “-ies” with nouns that end in a consonant “-y“.
study – studies
baby – babies - Some nouns that end in “-o“, add “-es” to form plural.
- Some nouns that end in “-o“, add only “-s” to form plural.
photo – photos auto – autos ghetto – ghettos kilo – kilos kanguroo – kanguroos
memo – memos piano – pianos radio – radios - Some nouns that end in “-o“, add either “-s” or “-es” to form plural.
memento – mementos / mementoes
mosquito – mosquitos / mosqitoes
volcano – volcanos / volcanoes
tornado – tornados / tornadoes
zero – zeros / zeroes - Some nouns that end in “-f” or “-fe“, change -f / -fe into “-ves” to form plural.
half – halves knife – knives life – lives
shelf – shelves scarf – s / scarves - Some nouns that end in “-f“, just simply add “-s” to form plural.
belief – beliefs chief – chiefs
cliff – cliffs roof – roofs - Some nouns have the same singular and plural form:
1 dear – 2 dear 1 fish – 2 fish
1 means – 2 means 1 offspring – 2 offspring
1 sheep – 2 sheep 1 series – 2 series
1 species – 2 species.
Learning about Final -S/-ES in English
Countable Nouns and Uncountable Nouns.
