Tuesday, August 10, 2010

NOUNS
definition : used to name a person, animal, place, thing and abstract ideas.
  1. noun gender 
  •  refer to men / women
  • example : author ( man ), authoress ( women )
     2.  possessive nouns
  • a noun / pronoun change its form to show that it owns / is closely related to something else.
  • nouns become possessive by adding a combination of an apostrophe and the letter's.
  • example : The effect of this legacy gives one of the power to a command a worldwide audience at one's fingertips.
     3.  proper nouns
  • with a capital letter such as name of specific person, place or thing, names of day of the weeks, months, historical documents, institutions, organisations, religions, holy text.
  • example : The most worthy of all hackers is probably the analyzer who at the mere age of seventeen successfully broke into the Pentagon files ( line 4 ).
  • UK ( line 37 )
  • Net ( line 5 )
  • Internet ( line 16 )
  • Japanese ( line 17 )
  • Apple Computers ( line 18 )
  • Taipei ( line 27 )
  • Chernobyl ( line 27 )
  • Asia ( line 28 )
  • Middle East ( line 29 )
  • Turkey ( line 29 )
  • South Korea ( line 29 )
  • Monday ( line 30 )
   4.  common nouns 
  •  referring to a person, place or thing in general sense.
  • example : All that is needed is a computer and a telephone line ( line 4 ).
   5.  concrete nouns 
  • when names anything ( or anyone ) that you can perceive through your physical sense ; touch, taste, hearing, see and smell.
   6.  abstract nouns
  • which names anything which you can not perceive through your five physical senses.    
   7.  countable nouns
  • a singular and plural form, and it names anything ( or anyone ) that you can count.
  • example : The Net too has been linked as a source that has brought about an overall increase in crime all around the world ( line 43 ).
  • students ( line 3 )
  • individuals ( line 5 )
  • causes ( line 10 )
  • ideas ( line 12 )
  • banks ( line 31 )
  • computers ( line 20 )
  • victims ( line 37 )
   8.  non - countable nouns
  • does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could ( or would ) not usually count.
  • example : Besides spreading top - secret information, the Net is also capable of spreading dangerous virus, which can only be detected after damage has been done ( line 25 ).
   9.  collective nouns 
  • noun naming a group of things, animals / person.

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