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NOUN - Coggle Diagram
NOUN
Definition
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A word that typically refers to people, things, animals, places, abstractions
A word that can be subject, object, or complement.
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Determiner + Noun = Noun Phrase.
Ex: A computer, this book, my house, some balls, one man,..
Determiner: A word which is used with a noun and which can limit the meaning of the noun in some way.
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Compound Nouns
- Single-word compound nouns: headache
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Plurality of compound nouns:
- horsemen
- father-in-law
- menservants
Plurality
- Suffix -s/es added the noun.
- Vowel change.
Ex: mouse --> mice, tooth --> teeth
- Same forms
Ex: aircraft, sheep, headquarters,..
- Irregular plural endings
Ex: ox --> oxen
crisis --> crises
nucleus --> nuclei
antenna --> antennae
millennium --> millennia
phenomenon --> phenomena 
- Nouns with two plural forms, each with a different meaning.
brother --> brothers/ brethren
index --> indexes/ indices
penny --> pennies/ pence
- Nouns with a different meaning for the plural form.
damage vs. damages
saving vs. savings
experiences vs. experiences
Types of Nouns
Proper Nouns:
- A noun which is the name of a particular person place or thing.
- Spelt with a capital letter.
Ex: Mary, London, etc.
Common Nouns.
is a noun which is NOT the name of a particular person, place, or thing.
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Concrete nouns: Nouns that refer to a physical thing, rather than a quality, state or action.
Ex: book, house, machine.
Abstract nouns: Nouns that refer to a quality, state, or action.
Ex: 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, stick of chalk.
- General partitives: a piece of paper/cake, a bit of cheese/cloth.
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can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns.
Ex: a loaf of bread, a packet of biscuits
Collective nouns: Nouns that refer to a collection of people, things or animals as a group.
Ex: school, family, company...
- Can be used with both singular and plural verbs.
Ex: The government is going to look into the matter.
The government are going to look into the matter.
Possessive Case
Possessive case is used
- To express possession.
- to express relations between people.
- to express purpose.
- to express time when
- to fixed expressions
- equivalent to a sentence
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Noun phrases
The basic structure of a noun phrase.
Pre - modifiers ( pre- determiner --> determiner --> adjective --> noun) + Head Noun + Post- modifiers.
Ex: Each of the heavy glass doors of the building.
Some nice soup dishes that I have bought.