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N O U N S, prepared by Marcin Naranowicz - Coggle Diagram

- - - - contaiiners eg: a tube of toothpaste, a can of beer, a carton of milk
      - quantity eg: a speck of dust, a grain of rice, a scrap of paper, a litre of beer
      - abstract nouns eg: a piece of advice, a piece of information, an item/piece of news, a spot of trouble,
      - types eg: a kind of..., a type of..., a variety of..., a species of...
      - game & round eg: a game of chess, a round of golf
    - - eg: a chicken vs. chicken, a coffee vs. coffee, a beer vs. beer, a drawing vs. drawing, a stone vs. stone, a tea vs. tea, a coke vs. coke, a lamb vs. lamb, a fish vs. fish, a duck vs. duck, a sculpture vs. sculpture, a painting vs. painting, a paper vs. paper, a rock vs. rock, a hair vs. hair
    - - cheese vs. cheeses, fruit vs. fruits
    - - eg: a love of fashion, a deep distrust, an everlasting love, a great help to me, a good knowledge of, a hatred of violence, it's a pity/wonder/shame/mercy that, a fear that, a suspicion that, a hope that
  - - - eg: whereabouts, remains, goods, proceeds, glasses, jeans, pyjamas, scales, scissors, spectacles, trousers, earnings, grounds, premises, quaters, surroundings, valuables, police, congratulations, thanks,
        
        :explode: peoples = nationality / race
    - - eg: wife – wives, leaf – leaves, life – lives, loaf – loaves, shelf – shelves, thief – thieves, wolf – wolves, wife – wives, self – selves
      - eg: hoof – hoofs/hoves, scarf – scarfs/scarves, wharf – wharfs/wharves
      - eg: foot – feet, mouse – mice, louse – lice, woman – women, man – men, goose – geese, tooth – teeth, child – children
      - words of Latin/Greek origin: crisis – crises, erratum – errata, stimulus – stimuli, phenomenon – phenomena, oasis – oases, appendix – appendixes/appendices, libretto – libretti, nucleus – nuclei
      - compounds eg: brother-in-law – brothers-in-low, runner-up – runnners-up
      - means – means, species – species, series – series, crossroads – crossroads
    - - some types of fish eg: carp, pike, salmon, trout, cod, squid, turbot, mackerel
      - deer, sheep, game (=hunted animals), news
      - subject of study (e.g., mathematics, physics)
        
        BUT :explode:: His mathematics are weak. | The economics of this case are complex.
      - illnesses (e.g., measles, mumps, rickets, shingles)
      - sport & games (e.g., aerobics, gymnastics, darts, billards, dominoes)
      - abstract ideas (e.g., politics, thanks, happiness)
      - measurements eg: Ten years is a long time. | Ten miles is a long distance.
      - names of dishes eg: This fish and chips is delicious!
      - titles of books and films eg: Hitchcock's film "The Birds" is based on...
      - names of cities ending with –s eg: Athens, Naples
    - - damage vs. damages (=compensation), pain vs. pains (troubles), spirit vs. spirits (=alcohol), arm vs. arms (=weapons), green vs. greens (=vegetables), look vs. looks (=appearance), custom vs. customs (= money paid to the government when you take particular goods from one country to another), glass vs. glasses (=spectacles), expense vs. expenses (=money spent as a part of one's job), manner vs. manners (=way of behaving), work vs. works (of arts, literature, etc.)