1. Singular Noun Definition: When a noun means one only, it is said to be singular.
ex: In the basket there was only one banana
2. Plural Noun Definition: When a noun means more than one, it is said to be plural.
ex: children are playing soccer
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3. Proper
Proper nouns name specific people, places, things, or ideas.
4.Common
Common nouns are the opposite of proper nouns. They are your run of the mill, generic nouns. They name people, places, things or ideas that are not specific.
ex: Tina offered Antonio one of her mother's homemade oatmeal cookies but only an Oreo would satisfy his sweet tooth.
Oreo: propernoun and cookies: common noun
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5. Countable Nouns
Countable nouns are easy to recognize. They are things that we can count. For example: "pen". We can count pens. We can have one, two, three or more pens.
ex: My dogs are hungry.
6. Uncountable Nouns
Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts etc that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot "count" them. For example, we cannot count "milk". We can count "bottles of milk" or "litres of milk", but we cannot count "milk" itself.
ex: I've got some money.
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7. Possessive Pronouns
We use possessive pronouns to refer to a specific person/people or thing/things (the "antecedent") belonging to a person/people (and sometimes belonging to an animal/animals or thing/things).
We use possessive pronouns depending on:
number: singular (mine) or plural (ours)
person: 1st person (mine), 2nd person (yours) or 3rd person (his)
gender: male (his), female (hers)
ex: This is your disk and that's mine.
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ex: In the basket there was only one banana
2. Plural Noun Definition: When a noun means more than one, it is said to be plural.
ex: children are playing soccer
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3. Proper
Proper nouns name specific people, places, things, or ideas.
4.Common
Common nouns are the opposite of proper nouns. They are your run of the mill, generic nouns. They name people, places, things or ideas that are not specific.
ex: Tina offered Antonio one of her mother's homemade oatmeal cookies but only an Oreo would satisfy his sweet tooth.
Oreo: propernoun and cookies: common noun
(www.english-grammar-revolution.com/terms/propenoun.htm)
5. Countable Nouns
Countable nouns are easy to recognize. They are things that we can count. For example: "pen". We can count pens. We can have one, two, three or more pens.
ex: My dogs are hungry.
6. Uncountable Nouns
Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts etc that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot "count" them. For example, we cannot count "milk". We can count "bottles of milk" or "litres of milk", but we cannot count "milk" itself.
ex: I've got some money.
(www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-un-countable.htm)
7. Possessive Pronouns
We use possessive pronouns to refer to a specific person/people or thing/things (the "antecedent") belonging to a person/people (and sometimes belonging to an animal/animals or thing/things).
We use possessive pronouns depending on:
number: singular (mine) or plural (ours)
person: 1st person (mine), 2nd person (yours) or 3rd person (his)
gender: male (his), female (hers)
ex: This is your disk and that's mine.
(www.englishclub.com/grammar/pronoun-possesive)
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