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TYPES OF NOUNS (II) - Coggle Diagram
TYPES OF NOUNS (II)
UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS (
Nouns that cannot be quantified
)
We need a lot of
money
to start the
business
They say
politics
is complicated business (
appear to be plural
)
I need some drinking
water
COUNTABLE NOUNS (
Nouns that can be counted
)
They can be used with articles
a, an and the
, also with quantifiers and and modifiers
Examples (regular)
Megan took a lot of
photographs
when she visited Grand Canyon
He had a
cat
when he was a kid
Examples (irregular)
I've got a blister on my left
foot
They are busy looking for the missing
child
COMPOUND NOUNS (
Nouns that are made up of two or more words
)
They can be written in three ways: a single word(
haircut
), two words(
ice cream
) and hyphenated(
mother-in-law
)
They can be combinations like:
Noun + Noun (
ice cream
)
Verb + Noun (
swimming pool
)
Noun + Adjective (
truckful
)
Noun + Verb (
sunrise
)
Adjective + Noun (
software
)
Noun + Prepositional phrase (
father-in-law
)
Preposition + Noun (
underworld
)
Verb + Preposition (
check-out
)