Nouns

Nouns

1. The name of a person, place or thing.

   • Nouns make up approximately a third of all English words; Tom, London, apple.

2. Abstract Nouns

   • Nouns that do not denote physical objects such as honesty and presence.

3. Morphological Features

   • Generally have forms that contrast one occurrence  of a physical object (singular) with two or more (plural): chair, chairs / engine, engines However there are irregularities when counting specific nouns, opposed to adding the suffix '-s' when counting more than one child, the word used is children.

4. Syntactic Criteria

   • When nouns combine with other words to from phrases, they most frequently combine with determiners