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ARTICLES, NOUNS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - THE
        Ex: It would be difficult to imagine life without the telephone.
      - ZERO
        Ex: It would be very difficult these days to live life without video/ email.
    - - ZERO
        Ex: Gunpowder has been a great invention throughout history
- - - - Used with
        
        Plural countable nouns
        Ex: The birds we saw yesterday were seagulls
        
        Uncountable nouns:
        Ex: The friendship is a special gift
        
        Singular countable nouns
        Ex: A man is coming to fix the television.
      - THE + nouns that are always singular
        
        something which is considered there is only one in existence (unique)
        Ex: The sun, the moon, the UN,...
        
        Superlatives
        Ex: He’s the best accountant in town.
      - THE + adjective/verb ➔ personal noun
        Ex: The wounded were taken to the nearest hospital.
      - THE + adjective ➔ abstract noun
        Ex: Out with the old, bring in the new.
      - Used to talk about a specific example of something which (we think) is known to both ourselves and the listener/ reader.
        Ex: The cars were parked illegally in the city center.
  - - - Used with singular countable nouns only
        Ex: A car drove past.
      - Used to talk about one of something we assumed the listener/reader doesn't know which specific thing
    - - Used with
        
        Uncountable nouns
        Ex: Money doesn’t necessarily bring happiness.
        
        Plural countable nouns
        Ex: Museums are closed on Sundays.
      - Used to talk about things generally
        Ex: Students never like tests.
      - Abstract uncountable nouns
        Ex: Determinism denies the existence of free will.
- - - - Articles
      - Demonstrative adjectives
      - Possessive adjectives
      - Numerals
      - Quantifiers
- - - - Countable nouns
        Ex: word – words, machine –
        machines
        
        Nouns that have both singular
        and plural forms
        
        Used to talk about countable
        individual things
        
        Used with either singular or
        plural verbs
      - Uncountable nouns
        Ex: education, homework, harm
        
        Nouns that do not usually
        occur in plural forms
        
        Used to talk about things of
        a mass
        
        Used with singular verbs
      - Some nouns can be either countable or uncountable
        depending on the context.
        Ex 1: He’s a danger to society.
        Ex 2: Britain is a multi-racial society.
    - - Concrete nouns:
        
        nouns that refer to a physical
        thing, rather than a quality, state, or action
        Ex" book, house, machine, etc.
      - 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
        Ex: a yard of cloth, an acre of land, etc,.
        
        Typical partitives
        Ex: a slice of cake, a stick of chalk
        
        General partitives
        Ex: a piece of paper/cake, a bit of cheese/cloth
        
        are always countable
        
        can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns
        Ex: a loaf of bread, a packet of biscuits, etc.
      - Collective nouns:
        
        nouns that refer to a collection of
        people, things, or animals as a group
        Ex: school, family, company, etc.
        
        can be used with both singular and plural verbs
        Ex 1: The government is going to look into the matter.
        Ex 2: The government are going to look into the matter.
- - - - possessive adjective + noun
      - possessive pronoun
      - noun + of + noun