Word classes - nouns

 

In this paragraph, we're going to talk about nouns. 

A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality.

Examples are: Dave, boy, house, table, wedding, water, friendliness.

 

We are going to talk about countable and uncountable nouns (which you need to know before you can learn about much and many in the paragraph determiners), plurals and possession. Possession can be shown by possessive adjectives, possessive pronouns and by using a possessive 's. The first two belong to other word classses, but are shown here because we like to do all 3 forms of possession in one go.

 

The assignment:

Step 1: Go to the Magister ELO and watch the videos about "nouns" (videos 15 upto and including 19) on the ELO whilst taking notes in your notebook.

 

Step 2: Click on the links below and do the exercises you find there. Please write your scores below the notes on this subject in your notebook.

countable and uncountable nouns

plurals

possession 1 (possessive adjectives; my, your, her etc.)

possession 2 (possessive pronouns; mine, yours, hers etc.)

possession 3 ('s/')

 

Step 3: Did you do well? Then continue with "verbs" on the next page.

Didn't do so well? Do some extra practise on :

www.digischool.nl

www.englisch-hilfen.de

www.perfect-english-grammar.com