Danh tu trong tieng Anh Nouns

Non-counts pluralized Subject – Verb disagreement In compound nouns, both nouns pluralized Compound nouns involving number and measurements, compound nouns used as an adjective may be in[r]

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 Main content

 Singular and plural nouns

 Count and non-count nouns

 Compound nouns

 Quantifiers

 Numbers

 Toefl test

Singular nouns change to plural form

Church

Brush

Bus

Kiss

Tomato (# radio)

Box

Buzz

Churches Brushes Buses Kisses Tomatoes Boxes Buzzes

Loaf

Child

Foot

Medium

Ox

Children Feet

Media Oxen

Some nouns are always plural

 Clothes

 Pants

 Jeans

 Glasses

 Scissors

 Police

 Trousers

 Scales

 Shoes

 Some nouns are always singular

Names of sciences Maths / mathematics Musics Politics Physics Arts

Diseases Mumps Measles

Games Billards Bowls Dominoes

News

 Count nouns:

 Non-count nouns:

they are used to indicate types:

 the wines of California / the fruits of the Northwest

 Non-count nouns:

A

non-count noun examples

help It is a great help to me

relief

knowledge She has a good knowledge of maths

dislike / dread / hatred / horror / love She has a great love of music.

mercy / pitty / shame / wonder It is a wonder that you passed the entrance exam into university fear / hope / suspicion There is a hope that the gold price will be at a standstill

 Some examples of non-count nouns

Food rice / sugar / fruit / milk / bread / butter / cheese

Fluids blood / water / oil / coffee / tea / gasoline

Raw materials wood / paper / glass / iron / silver / wool

Gases oxygen / air / pollution / steam

General furniture / mail / money / traffic / equipment / news

Groups jewelry / machinery / luggage / clothing / cash

Languages English / Chinese

 Some nouns can be both countable and

uncountable:

 hair, wine, wood, work

 Whenever she finds a grey hair, she pulls it out.

 Her hair is blonde.

plural form:

 fish /deer / sheep / salmon / series / species / spacecraft

form:

 a two-week vacation / a three-day trip / a three-year-old boy

 Definitions: compound nouns are the nouns that include at least one noun and used to

make one word or idea

passer-by, mother-in-law,

street market, dining room

 Kinds

 Abbreviations:

 Eg: MPs, VIPs

 N + er

 Eg: passer-by, hanger-on

 N + prep + N

 Eg: mother-in-law, father-in-law, lady in waiting

 N + N

 Eg: kitchen table, river bank, traffic warden, winter clothes

 N + Ving

 Eg: weight lifting, bird watching, surf riding, coal mining

 Ving + N

 Eg: waiting list, dining room, reading lamp, swimming pool, driving license

 Plural form of compound nouns

N + prep + N 1 st noun

plural

Mother(s)-in-law Ladies in waiting Sister(s)-in-law

N+ er 1 st noun

plural

Passer(s)-by Hanger(s)-on Runner(s)-up

Ving + N 2 nd noun

plural

Waiting list(s) Dining room(s) Driving

license(s)

N + N 2 nd

noun-plural

Boy friend(s) Break-in(s) School-boy(s) Lady killer(s) Bread-winner(s)

Abbreviations MPs VIPs UFOs MCs

N + Ving Weight lifting Coal mining

 Compound nouns with number

expressions used as an adjectives

 a ten-watt light bulb = a light bulb of ten watts

16,000 pages

 a ten-year-old boy = a boy at the age

of 10

 Definition: a quantifier is a word that indicates an

amount or quantity

 Eg: both / many / (a) few / several /another / each /

every

 Kinds:

with plural count nouns:

/ hats / schools

with singular count nouns:

song

 Kinds:

non-count nouns:

 (a) little / much / less / amount + wine / money

plural count nouns and non-count

nouns:

 all / a lot of / lots of / plenty of / enough / some / any / most / more + beer / rice / information / hospitals / roads

Three

Four

hundred thousand million billion

Thousand

 Non-counts pluralized

pluralized

measurements, compound nouns used

as an adjective may be in plural form

no plural for hundred / thousand /

million