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NOUNS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Articles
      - Demonstrative adjectives
      - Possessive adjectives
      - Quantifiers
      - Numerals
- - - - is a noun which is NOT the name of a particular person, place, or thing. Ex: book, driver, etc.
    - - Countable nouns (Count nouns)
        
        Nouns that have both singular and plural forms
        
        Used to talk about countable individual things
        
        Used with either singular or plural verbs.
        Ex: word-words, machine - machines
      - Uncountable nouns (Non-Count nouns)
        
        Nouns that do not usually occur in plural forms
        
        Used to talk about things of a mass
        
        Used with singular verbs education, homework, harm
        
        Some nouns can be either countable or uncountable depending on the context.
      - Concrete nouns
        
        nouns that refer to a physical thing, rather than a quality, state, or action
      - Abstract nouns
        
        nouns that refer to a quality, state, or action
        happiness, idea, punishment
      - Partitive nouns
        
        phrases used to express
        quantity and used with an uncountable noun
        
        Measure partitives: a yard of cloth, an acre of land
        
        Typical partitives: a slice of cake, a stick of chalk
        
        General partitives: a piece of paper/cake, a bit of cheese/ cloth
        
        are always countable
        can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns
        a loaf of bread; a packet of biscuits
      - Collective nouns
        
        nouns that refer to a collection of people, things, or animals as a group school, family, company
        
        can be used with both singular and plural verbs
        
        The government is going to look into the matter.
        The government are going to look into the matter.
  - - - is a noun which is the name of a particular person, place, or thing. Spelt with a capital letter. Ex: Mary, London, etc.
- - - - possessive adjective + noun
      - possessive pronoun
        noun+of+ noun
      - possessive case 's
    - - to express possession: Julia's coat
      - to express relations between people: the man's father
      - to express purpose: children's playground
      - to express time when: yesterday's newspaper
      - in fixed expressions: for pity's sake
      - as adjectival use: a man's voice (= a male voice)
      - equivalent to a sentence: the residents' protests = the residents protested