Noun
We know there are subject and predicate in a sentence.
Example:
"Hina speaks good English."
Here 'Hina' is subject and 'speaks good English' is predicate. That means, in most cases, subject is noun or noun equivalent and predicate has a verb at least.
If we have clear concept about Noun and Verb, the situation favours us in learning English sentence . That's why today we have some contents on Noun for discussion. Then why don't we start?
"Mr Naik is a meritorious man. He is a professor. He runs a business in his town Jessore. He has honesty ."
Here -
Mr Naik : person's name
man : common name for human
professor : profession
business : occupation / profession
Jessore : place's name
Honesty : qualification
So we can know or identify Noun in some categories -
a) Persons
b) Places
c) Things
d) Members of a class /A group of persons / animals / things
e) Action or activities
f) Qualities, emotions or conditions of people or things
There are also some techniques of identifying Noun.
If the formation of Noun is observed properly, it is easily identified.
Sometimes a Noun contains suffixes immediately after it. Many Nouns are built up by adding suffixes after verbs and adjectives .
Let's experience some examples -
Noun indicating persons :
- er as in driver, player, writer, doer, comer
- or as in editor, visitor, actor
- ant as in servant, assistant, attendant
- ist as in scientist, chemist, typist
Sometimes some Nouns are derived from verbs and indicating qualities, ideas, conditions.
- age as in leakage, coverage
- al as in arrival, refusal, approval
- ance as in attendance, appearance, performance
- ery as in discovery, recovery, delivery
- ment as in agreement, arrangement, disadvancement
- sion as in decision, division, expansion
- tion as in education, solution, attention
- ure as in failure, closure, departure.
Again when Noun derived from Adjectives, then
- ance, ence as in importance, absence
- ity as in ability, equality, activity,
- ness as in darkness, happiness, gloominess
- th as in strength, truth
Classification and Differences
In most of the Grammar books, we see classifying Noun mainly in two categories - Concrete ( it can be seen ) and Abstract Noun ( can't be seen). However Concrete Noun can be classified into Proper, Common, Material and Collective Noun.
There are many contents in Noun. We are going to finish our lesson today showing differences between Collective Noun and Noun of Multitudes.
Collective Noun does not denote every separate part of anything but it denotes one undivided and unique whole and this is why the verb after Common Noun is singular.
Example:
The jury consists of 7 members.
The jury is unanimous in its opinion.
But Noun of Multitudes indicate every single part and the individuals of the group and the verb is plural.
The jury ( judges) were divided in their opinions.
So in these ways we can know and build Nouns from other parts of speech.
In the next post, we are going to show more details of Noun and other parts of speech.
Today's Supplements
Proverbs
⭐All his geese are swans - one's own things are the best.
⭐Alpha and Omega - the beginning and the end.
⭐ A pet lamb makes a cross ram - too much indulgence spoils a child.
◾Vocabulary
✔ zany
~ I got amusement at your zany tricks.
Synonyms : amusing, comical, clownish, droll, eccentric, funny.
Antonyms : serious, wise, sagacious, grave, deep
✔ yield
~ We can't but yield to our fate.
Synonyms : capitulate, surrender, abandon, concede, give in , produce, supply
Antonyms : resist, hold, retain, withstand
✔ xerox
~ I need to xerox these pages.
Synonyms : copy, photocopy
Antonyms : cyclostyle, print, type, write.
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