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English Nouns and Nouns Exercises

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1. What is a noun in English?

A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.

• Common nouns refer to any person, place, thing, idea, etc.
  Example:

  boy

  house

  water

  town

  religion

  despair

• Proper nouns refer to particular places, people, objects, ideas, etc.
  Example:

  George

  the White House

  Paris

  Christian Science

  New York

Nouns are used as the subjects of sentences, and as the objects of the verbs and prepositions.

2. Singular and Plural Nouns

Nouns can be classified into 2 groups: countable nouns which can be counted and which take an "s" and uncountable nouns which cannot be counted and which usually donot take an "s".

3. Countable nouns:

• usually take a / an or one in the singular
• take a final s / es in the plural

Some countable nouns are irregular and do not take an 's' in the plural. Here are some common irregular countable nouns:

4. Uncountable nouns

• do not take a / an in the singular
• do not generally have a plural form

Uncountable nouns can not be counted because they come in a mass or in an uncountable form. Nouns such as blood, music, and excitement can not be counted. The following is a short list of some uncountable nouns:

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