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Advanced English Grammar 101

Last week we were told about the kilogre lesson plan and this week we started our demo teaching. The topics that discussed in the demo teaching are different kinds of nouns. All of us know what noun is so we proceed to proper and common noun, proper nouns specifies people, places, animals and things they usually begin with a capital letter while common nouns are everywhere and we use them all the time these are words that used to name general items rather specific ones. Next is the count and non-count nouns, count nouns refers to things that can be divided up into smaller units and can be express to plural form while non-count nouns are the ones that usually cannot be expressed in a plural form. When count and non-count nouns can be differ with certain adjectives exampels; 1.Some/Any: Some and any can be used in countable and non-countable nouns. 2.Much/Many: Much modifies only uncountable. Many modifies only countable nouns. 3.Little/Few: little modifiesonly uncountable. Few modifies only countable nouns. 4.Enough: modifies both countable and uncountable nouns. 5.No: modifies both. The abstract and concrete nouns, abstract nouns refer to intangible things like actions, feelings, ideals, concepts and qualities it can be countable or non-countable and can also be in singular or plural form. Nouns with the ff. suffixes are often abstract: -tion -ism -ity -ment -ness -age -ance -ence -ship While concrete nouns, we experience it through our five senses. Concrete nouns can be common, proper, countable and uncountable nouns. Next is the collective noun and compound noun, collective nouns are names for a collection or refers to group of people,animals or things. They can be plural or singular depends on the context of the sentence examples; Singular focus on the individual elements acting together as one unit. 1. The team is winning. Plural when the sentence highlighting the individuals among the group. 1. The team are cooperating well tonight. Compound nouns contain two or more words which join together to make a single noun. It can be express in 4 ways: 1. Closed form- two words that have melded together to make one word e.g Keyboard, softball 2. Hyphenated form- two words joined by a hypen e.g mother-in-law 3. Open form- words is created in cases when the modifying adjective is used with its noun to create a new noun e.g living room, Real Estate 4. And form- two words joined by and to make one word e.g jam and bread, peanut butter and jelly The last topic but not the least are the material and gender-specific nouns, material nouns are names of materials or substances out of which things are made of. It refers to the type of substance instead of individual particles of the substance or raw materials e.g water, air, silver, gold, egg, meat, honey, milk, cotton, food, acid, alcohol, asphalt. Gender- specific nouns refers specifically to a male or a female. When a noun's meaning makes its gender masculine or feminine, it is said to be a gender-specific noun e.g actress / waitress / vixen / bitch / sow (gender specific - female) Dad / bull / uncle / drake / ram / boar / wether (a castrated male sheep or goat) (gender specific - male) These are not gender-specific nouns: soldier / cat / whale / mouse (not gender specific) So that's for this week's lessons!