Nouns - created from Mind Map

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Introduction

Types

Rules

Noun case

A noun is a

Animal

Place

Person

Thing

Feeling

Dog

Cat

School

My house

Gym

Anna

Kate

Table

Chair

Jealousy

Anger

Common noun

Proper noun

Collective nouns

Uncountable nouns

Concrete nouns

Abstract nouns

Material nouns

Countable nouns

Teacher

Boy

Girl

“A common name given

Kate

Spain

Goat

A specific type of noun when referring to something

Herd

Cattle

Flock

“ a family or team”

Water

Things that you can’t count

This table

This iPad

This girl

“This” thing is a concrete noun

Lies

Future

Promises

Something that you cannot see, feel, hear or smell

Wood

Wool

Cotton

Different materials

Chairs

Things that you can count

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Some nouns are singular

People

Police

Cattle

Singular

Plural noun

Are/we

Some nouns already plural but not said

Thanks

Premises

Spectacles

Always singular verb

Ethics

News

Machinery

Is/was

Nouns that indicate money,length and weight

Kilo

Millimeters

Dozen

Collective nouns are used both in singular and plural form.

Jury

Government

Is/were

Different meaning when plural and singular

Good and goods

Force and forces

Iron and irons

not take any article (a, an or the) before them

Correct-My Mother likes gold and not silver

Incorrect – Cooking food on a cast iron pan is healthy.

personify a Neuter Gender Noun

The Moon was shining on the sea with all his might

It is our duty to protect Mother Earth

the work of art, the title of books

The Palace of Illusions’ is an incredible narration of the Mahabharata

The Game of Thrones’ is my favourite drama series

for small creatures, insects or very young children neuter gender is used

The baby wants food every hour or it starts crying

I could see the butterfly moving its wings

Dative Case

Vocative case

Nominative Case

Objective Case

Possessive Case

when a noun is in the indirect object of a verb it is in the Dative case

Rohan brought me chocolates, (‘Me’ is in the dative case)

A noun is in the vocative case when it is used to call (to get attention).

Ms Ria, teachers are waiting for you in the staffroom. (Ms Ria is in a vocative case).

if a noun is the subject of a verb it is said to be in Nominative case

Radha is an intelligent girl

when the noun is the direct object of the verb or the preposition, they are in the objective case

Please give the fruits

when a noun denotes ownership or possession

That is my dress. ‘My’ is in the possessive case.