{"id":73486,"date":"2020-03-26T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73486"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:08:52","slug":"nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/nouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous words in English. These words are divided into eight classes on the basis of their grammatical behaviour. The eight parts of speech are:\u00a0<b>noun, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, verb<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>interjection<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h3>Nouns<\/h3>\n<p>A\u00a0<b>noun<\/b>\u00a0is the name of a person, place or thing. Examples are:\u00a0<i>boy, girl, tree, apple, computer, India, mother, father, Raju, river, breeze, heat, country<\/i>\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n<p>A noun can be the\u00a0subject\u00a0or\u00a0object\u00a0of a\u00a0verb.<\/p>\n<p>Some nouns have plural forms. These are called\u00a0countable nouns. Example are:<i>\u00a0apple, boy, book, car, flower, country, student<\/i>\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n<p>Most singular nouns form their plurals by adding\u00a0<b>\u2013s<\/b>\u00a0to the singular.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple \u2013&gt; apples<\/li>\n<li>Boy \u2013&gt; boys<\/li>\n<li>Girl \u2013&gt; girls<\/li>\n<li>Book \u2013&gt; books<\/li>\n<li>Flower \u2013&gt; flowers<\/li>\n<li>Student \u2013&gt; students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some singular nouns form their plurals by adding<b>\u00a0\u2013es<\/b>\u00a0to the singular.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fox \u2013&gt; foxes<\/li>\n<li>Box \u2013&gt; boxes<\/li>\n<li>Mango \u2013&gt; mangoes<\/li>\n<li>Tomato \u2013&gt; tomatoes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some nouns form their\u00a0<b>plurals<\/b>\u00a0irregularly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Man \u2013&gt; men<\/li>\n<li>Woman \u2013&gt; women<\/li>\n<li>Child \u2013&gt; children<\/li>\n<li>Foot \u2013&gt; feet<\/li>\n<li>Tooth \u2013&gt; teeth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can use\u00a0numbers\u00a0and the definite articles<b>\u00a0a\/an<\/b>\u00a0with countable nouns. We can, for example, say\u00a0<b>an apple<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>two apples<\/b>. A singular countable noun always has an article or another determiner with it. We say\u00a0<i>a book, my book, the book, this book<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>that book<\/i>, but not just\u00a0<i>book<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Some nouns do not have plural forms. In grammars, these nouns are uncountable nouns. Uncountable nouns are the names of materials, liquids, abstract ideas, collections and other things which we do not see as separate object. Examples are: water, oil, petrol, air, gas, weather, wool, rice, milk, sand etc.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot use numbers or the article\u00a0<b>a\/an<\/b>\u00a0with uncountable nouns. We say\u00a0<i>weather<\/i>, not\u00a0<i>a weather<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>two weathers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Most uncountable nouns are followed by singular verbs. However, there are some exceptions to this rule. Some nouns which are uncountable in English have plural countable forms in many languages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous words in English. These words are divided into eight classes on the basis of their grammatical behaviour. The eight parts of speech are:\u00a0noun, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, verb\u00a0and\u00a0interjection. 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