Learning English - a prerequisite for effective operation of modern man.Noun - one of the pillars of English grammar.It is with this theme should start, if you choose to learn English on their own.
What is a noun?Is the this part of the speech of the English language from its equivalent in Russian?
Noun - all objects and living beings around us: the visible (cat, chair, TV) and invisible (name, property, object, feeling), the words that we use in relation to a whole group or class of items with similar characteristics(nick), and words used as the names of persons, cities and countries, animal nicknames (own).
| Common nouns (nick) | Proper nouns (own) |
| man | Wictor Hugo, Walt Disney |
| mountain | Mount Kilimanjaro |
| state | Minissota, California |
| ocean | Atlantic ocean, Indian ocean |
| country | United States, Australia |
| building | Empire State Building |
| cat | Fluffy, Buttons |
| airline | Sun Country, North West |
| website | English Grammar Revolution |
noun - is a whole world of objects and concepts.It's all words, in relation to which the singular nominative case, we can ask the question: "Who?"or what?".
other words, noun answers the question "who?", "What?"and refers to the subject.The subject of the English language is all that answers the question "who?", "What?"(who (what) is this?)
example: a bat (the bat); a professor, (Professor); a ball (the ball) , a mouse (mouse).
noun in the English language is used in conjunction with the two main attributes of this part of the speech - the pretext and articles: a flower, the flower - the flower, in the garden - the garden, behind the door - the door.
addition to other characteristics, the noun can stand in the common case, and the possessive:
the hat of a girl, a hat girl - the girl's hat, hat Devochkin;
the key of my room, the key of my room - me room's key.
There are countable and uncountable nouns.
Countable - those objects and creatures that you can find: rooms rooms, cats are cats, flags - flags, symbols - symbols.
Uncountable nouns can not calculate chalk - chalk, milk - milk, goodness - goodness, meat - meat.
noun forms plural by adding the words at the end of -s or -es:
flat - apartment, flats - apartments;liaf - leaf, leaves - leaves;book - the book, books - books.
In studying the topic "The noun" great benefit to have a special card with a picture of objects, people and animals on one side and transfer - on the other.
sometimes helpful just to carry them in your pocket and periodically review.
very popular among troops age group of 1-5 years of secondary school are the so-called poetry-dogovorki - poem in Russian with an admixture of English words.
theme "noun" in the English language has a number of nuances, in contrast to the Russian equivalent, so you should be especially careful in cases, for example, when there are two nouns: rain day - rainy day.As you can see, a noun, standing in front, serves as an adjective.
Or an example: my sisters' room - the room of my sisters, my sisters're not students - my sister - not students.In the first case, the apostrophe indicates the possessive case, in the second - a reduction in the auxiliary verb are.
should also carefully examine the themes section "The number of nouns," because there are a large number of exceptions (phenomeno - phenomena), which can also easily be misleading.
