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Study these examples:
1. Mary ate a bowl of delicious soup. The nouns are Mary, bowl and soup.
2. Our new baby was born in the hospital on Friday.
The nouns are baby, hospital and Friday.
Let's practice finding NOUNS.
Remember, a NOUN is a name of person, place, thing or idea.
Let’s first recall what nouns are!In order to go through your
activity properly, let us recall first what nouns are!
For this part, Annie and Moby will join us once again!
More Practice!
Read and understand pages 2-3 of your textbook.Then, answer pages 3-4 (Exercises A and B only).
Since NOUNS are EVERYWHERE. They are easier to identify through their classifications or kinds.
There are 7 kinds of nouns:
1.Proper Nouns 5. Abstract Nouns2.Common Nouns 6. Concrete Nouns3.Count Nouns 7. Collective Nouns4.Mass Nouns
Proper NounA noun that names a specific:•person•place •thing•idea
MarioMario
Happy Valley Happy Valley ChurchChurch
Mr. Gatti’s PizzaMr. Gatti’s Pizza
Newton’s Theory of GravityNewton’s Theory of Gravity
Here are some more examples of common and proper nouns:
Common Proper country Philippines
president Ninoy Aquino
teacher Mrs. Ibarra
game Monopoly
museum National Museum
song Born This Way
lawyer Attorney Trina Legarda
Notice that because proper nouns name specific people, places, or things, they are
all CAPITALIZED.
Are you ready for a practice?
Read and understand page 7 of your textbook. Then, answer page 8 (Exercises A and B only).
Let us try this! Can you substitute
appropriate proper nouns to the underlined common nouns?
1. The teacher prepares for her next class.
2. She needs to give one student a make-up test.
teacher sand
table soil
garbage can gas
poster hair
trees grain
bag water
Look at the table below. What do you notice with their grouping?
The nouns in the 1st column are what we call count (countable) nouns or names of people, places, things that we can count.
teacher
table
garbage can
poster
trees
bag
What do the nouns in the first column have in common?
Numerals like one, two and three or articles such as a and an are put before these nouns to indicate their numbers.
Examples:1.a book (pertaining to one book)2.two villages3.seven dwarfs4.twelve apostles5.four pencils
Nouns such as gas, sand and soil cannot be counted.
What do we call these kinds of nouns?
Mass nouns are names of uncountable things that we look upon as one big mass.
sand
soil
gas
hair
grain
water
How about the nouns in the 2nd column?
Let’s Practice!
Read pages 11-12 silently. Then, answer pages 12-13 of your textbook, Exercise A only.
We cannot say one pastas, three waters, twelve juices
So How do you count mass nouns?
You can't, but you can measure them.
What can you use to measure nouns that are uncountable?
For mass nouns, we use counters!
Noun counters are measuring devices we use to quantify mass nouns.
•Containers are form of counters. Remember that the nouns you're counting do not take the plural form. The container does.
Examples:
a box of cereal
six buckets of water
Seven cans of Coke
Eight cartons of milk
Nine cups of coffee
Ten glasses of water
Eleven jars of honey
A dozen packets of butter
•You can measure a mass noun to count it but the measurement takes the plural form not the noun.
Examples:
Two liters of milk
Five kilos of butter
•You can measure mass nouns using shapes or portions but once again the measurement takes the plural form.
Examples: Two pinches of salt
Five slices of cake
Fourteen spoonfuls of sugar
How much _______? = uncountable nouns
Example: How much coffee do you drink?
How many _______? = countable nouns
Example: How many cups of coffee do you drink?
Look at the following table:
Let’s Practice!Give an appropriate counter for the following nouns.
1. bread2. oil3. meat4. pasta5. rice
Identify the mass nouns that do not have appropriate counters.
1. a. five kilos of riceb. strands of hairc. four gallons of salt
2. a. a bag of teab. two liters of paintc. a slice of milk
3. a. eleven tanks of oxygenb. nine bottles of meatc. three kilos of rice
4. a. a basket of vinegarb. a sack of cementc. eight ounces of soda
5. a. a cup of coffee
b. seven cans of butterc. a box of soap
Identifying count and mass nouns would make us communicate our ideas better!
Imagine saying milks, salts or butters! Obviously these nouns are in incorrect forms because they are mass nouns that need counters for measurement.
Why do we need to distinguish count nouns from mass nouns?