THE NOUN: NUMBER (1/2)

 

THE NOUN: NUMBER (1/2)

 

The Noun number which indicates the count of a noun or pronoun.

There are two types of the noun number.

 

Singular Noun and plural Noun

Singular Noun:

 

Singular Noun is the noun which refers to only one or single noun or pronoun.

 

Examples: Boy, Dog, Tree. Etc.

 

Plural Noun:

 

Plural noun is the noun which refers to more than one number of nouns and pronouns.

 

Examples:

 

Boys, Dogs, three Trees etc.

 

Change Singular to plural nouns:

           

            There are few rules to change singular nouns

 

Rule Number 1:

 

Normally we ass “S” in the end of any noun or pronoun to make it pronouns.

 

Examples:

Pencil  to     Pencils

Web      to     Webs

Tree     to     Tree

Night    to     Nights

 

Rule Number 2:

 

If a noun or pronoun ends with s, sh, ch, x and z in the end, simply we will as “es” at the end to make it Plural.

 

Examples:

Arch      to       Arches

Ash        to      Ashes

Dish       to        Dishes

Branch   to        Branches

 

 

Rule Number 3:

 

In the noun or pronoun where “ch” sounds like “K” only “S” wil be added to make a noun or pronoun plural.

 

Examples

 

Stomach         to         Stomachs

Patriarch         to         Patriarchs

Hierarch           to         Hierarchs

 

Rule Number 4:

 

When a noun or pronoun ends with “y” and there is a consonant before that “y”, “i” will replace it and an “es” will be used to make it plural.

 

Examples:

 

Hobby to         Hobbies

Military           to         Militaries

Fly                   to         Flies

Query               to         Queries

 

Rule Number 4(a):

When a noun or pronoun ends with “y” and there is a vowel before that “y”, only “s” will be used to make it plural.

 

Trolley              to         Trolleys

Boy                  to         Boys

Toy                   to         Toys

 

 

 

Continued…..

 

 

 

THE GENDER NOUN:

 

THE GENDER NOUN:

 

    As we have already studied that nouns are names of persons, place and things. These personas or things can be male, female or can be none of these. Nouns which refers to gender of the noun is called gender noun.

 

Examples:

Boy (Tiger, Poet, Peacock)

Girl (Tigress, Poetess, Peahen)

 

You can see the pair of words mentioned above in first row there is male noun of the pair and in the 2^nd row there is female noun of the pair

 

There are four types of gender noun.

i-               Masculine Noun

A noun that denotes a male animal, Human is said to be of the Masculine Gender noun and He, his, etc. is used with these.

Examples:

Zeeshan is an engineer.

A dog is barking in the street.

 

ii-              Feminine Noun

A noun that indicates a female animal, human, is said to be of the Feminine Gender noun and pronouns like she, her, it etc. is used with them.

 

Example:

 

Her name is Julia and she is a doctor.

 

Lioness were jumping over the trees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

iii-           Common Noun

A noun that is used for both male and a female is said to be of the Common Gender noun.

 

Examples

 

Parent, child, friend, pupil, servant, thief, relation, enemy, cousin, person, orphan, student, baby, monarch, neighbor, infant.

 

iv-           Neuter Noun  

 

A noun that indicates a thing that is neither male nor female is said to be of the Neuter Gender noun.

 

Examples

 

Tree, Computer, Book, Laptop

More Types of Noun 3/3

Collective Noun:

A Noun that is used to present a group of things, persons etc. is called Collective Noun,

For Example

• Cricket team of Pakistan
• Royal Family
• Crew of the event
• Herd of animals
• A company
• And many more

Is a collective Noun Singular or Plural?

The question is that collective noun is singular or plural?

It can be used singular noun or it can be used as plural noun. It depends how the members of group is behaving or acting like.

If all the members of group is acting together then collective noun will be used as singular noun

For Example:

• Pakistan Cricket Team won the match.
• Bench has submitted the decisions to the Supreme Court.

If all the members of group is acting individually then collective noun will be used as plural noun

For example:

• Pakistan Cricket Team stuck in a match but all team member was trying their best.
• Bench failed to submit their report as the members of bench were not agree on the final report

Countable Noun:

Countable Nouns are that can be count called the countable nouns. 

For Example:

         i. She was making a cup of tea

        ii. I ordered him for three cups of tea.

        iii. He ordered two pizzas.

        iv. He has ten pairs of shoes.

In every sentence mentioned above nouns are countable like. a cup of tea,  three cups of tea, two Pizzas. Ten pairs of shoes. these all are countable nouns.

Uncountable Noun:

Uncountable Nouns are those can not be count called the Uncountable Nouns. 

For Example:

         i. Rice.

        ii. Sand

        iii. water

        iv. words of Book.

each noun mentioned above is a uncountable noun because you can not count rice, Sand, water and words of book.

Compound Noun:

A noun that is made of two or more words is non as compound. Its mean it can be in different combination like Non + Non or it can be adjective + noun. each compound noun act as one unit. 

For Example:

1. An Odd shoe.
2. Big Moon.
3. railway station.  

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