NOUNS PART 2

PART 2

COUNTABLE NOUNS
- Can be singular (e.g ship) or plural (e.g ships/ one ships/ two ships)

UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
- Neither plural or singular (e.g water)
- We can say some water but not a  water.

SOME  WORDS GOES WITH BOTH COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
         'THE'
- The ship (singular)
- The ships (plural)
- The water ( uncountable)

> but other words go with one kind of noun but not with the other

           'A/ AN/ ONE'
- Goes only with singular nouns.
- can't be use with uncountable nouns
- I need a spoon.

           Numbers
- goes with plural nouns
- Can't be use with uncountable nouns
- e.g : I eat three meals a day.

        
          'SOME/ MANY/ MUCH/ etc'        
- 'some' and 'any' go with plural and uncountable nouns.
- We use plural and uncountable nouns on their own, without some or any.
- e.g :   plural
           Tom told some jokes.
           Do you know any jokes?
           To usually tells jokes.
              uncountable
           We had some fun.
           That won't be any fun.
           We always have fun.


           'MANY/ A FEW'
- go only with plural nouns.
-e.g : There are many bottles.
          you only got a few minutes left.


            'MUCH/ A LITTLE'
- Go with uncountable nouns.
-e.g : I don't drink much coffee.
         There was only a little bread left.


WHAT IS NORMALLY UNCOUNTABLE CAN BE COUNTABLE WHEN....
- e.g : A carton of milk.
          A kilo of sugar.
          A piece/ slice/ loaf of bread.


- Other words you can add to make uncountable nouns countable:-

You can put something into a container to count it, but the thing you're counting doesn't take the plural  form. The container takes the plural form:-
bag	A bag of money.
barrel	Two barrels of beer.
bottle	Three bottles of wine.
bowl	Four bowls of sugar.
box	Five boxes of cereal.
bucket	Six buckets of water.
can	Seven cans of Coke.
carton	Eight cartons of milk.
cup	Nine cups of coffee.
glass	Ten glasses of water.
jar	Eleven jars of honey.
packet	A dozen packets of butter.
a saucepan	Thirteen pans of rice.
tank	Fifteen tanks of petrol.
tin	Sixteen tins of custard.
tub	Seventeen tubs of margarine.
tube	Eighteen tubes of toothpaste.

NOUNS THAT CAN BE COUNTABLE OR UNCOUNTABLE
    countable
- e.g : I'm peeling the potatoes.
          Mary baked a cake.
          Football is a sport.
    uncountable
- e.g : Would you like some potato?
           Have some cake.
           Is there apple in this pie?
           Do you like sport?  ( sport in general)
     


APPOSITIVE NOUN
- Appositive means 'near'
- Its a noun/ pronoun and placed near another noun or pronoun.
- e.g : My sister, Anne, is in the town for the party.
          Mee Leng, the leader, will deliver the speech.


PERSONAL PRONOUNS
- Is often defined as a word which can be used instead of a noun.
- Instead of saying 'John is a student.' pronoun he can be used  ( He is a student.)

THE NOUN AS  ADJECTIVES

- As you know, a noun is a person, place or thing, and an adjective is a word that describes a noun:

adjective	noun
clever	teacher
small	office
black	horse

- Sometimes we use a noun to describe another noun. In that case, the first noun "acts as" an adjective.

noun as adjective	noun
history	teacher
ticket	office
race	horse