nouns Flashcards
What are nouns?
Nouns are very often known as naming words because they name things. In terms of their meaning= refer to a person, place or thing e.g. ‘Manchester’, ‘cushion’, ‘Bruiser’.
Which Is easier for children and people with aphasia and why?
Concrete nouns are easier for children and people with aphasia to understand as they are present in the environment and can be experienced through their senses hence its easier for them to map the word to what they are experience. Also HFW.
To identify nouns should also look at their grammatical properties. Explain this.
e.g. like distribution where they can be used in sentences and in relation to other words, where they distribute in language. E.g. affixation - so which affixes can take, can they take the plural ending/suffix.
Explain the noun subtypes.
nouns can be put into various different subtypes: concrete versus abstract nouns, proper nouns versus common nouns, count versus non-count or mass nouns.
Explain concrete Versus abstract nouns
A concrete noun is something that you can experience through one or more of your senses. can see/ hear/ touch/smell/taste. Experience things that are present in our physical environment, or they may not be present when you’re talking about them “cup” I can lift it up, I can feel it, I can see it. But if they are present, you can experience them through one of your senses / experience them from our environment which makes it easier to map the word to what we’re seeing/experiencing. Whereas an abstract noun cannot be experienced in this way e.g. ‘love’, ‘bravery’, ‘knowledge’, ‘friendship’.
Explain Proper Versus Common nouns
Proper nouns in writing have capital letters, they relate to names of places, people, or brands. It’s an actual particular name for these things e.g.’Manchester’ is a specific place. ‘Sweden’, again, a specific country. ‘Andy Burnham’, the Mayor of Manchester, is a specific person. ‘Cadbury’s’ - a specific brand. So it’s the actual names, proper names of things, and you might see it called ‘proper names’, as well as ‘proper nouns’. Whereas common nouns are basically all the others e.g. ‘book’, ‘pen’. That’s just the common name, common term for them.
Explain count Versus non-count nouns
Count nouns are often called countable nouns and means that the thing is countable. It can be singular or It can be plural. can be modified by numbers e.g. ‘one dog’, ‘many dogs’, ‘three dogs’. They are countable things, separate entities. Whereas non-count nouns are not countable. So they’re called uncountable nouns/ mass nouns, because the thing often occurs in a kind of mass. Can’t separate into clearly divisible entities e.g. ‘rubbish’ - So a load of rubbish is not countable. It’s one sort of mass of things. ‘Water’. BUT “Can I have two waters, please?” So in that sense, that would be countable. It’s a grey area, this one. But really what you’re saying there is “two glasses of water”. If we’re talking about water that’s not really contained in glasses or cups and anything, that’s not really countable. So it’s a big mass of something.
What are the properties of nouns/ what can we checks to identify nouns? exception
Firstly, can we add ‘the’ or ‘some’ before it? And, by that I mean, can we do that without adding anything after the noun and it still makes sense? So we can say “the water”, but we can’t say “the friendly” and not add anything after that. We could say “the friendly man” or whatever, but that’s adding something again. So ‘friendly’ is not a noun. It’s actually an adjective.
second check: can we add this plural morpheme at the end, a ‘-s’ in English? So for example, ‘shoes’, we can do that with. ‘Shoe’ - we know that’s a noun. We turn it into- it can take the plural morpheme. But ‘quickly’, we can’t really do that. We can’t say ‘quicklys’/’quicklies’. Yeah, doesn’t work. So ‘quickly’ is not a noun.
Third check: can we add ‘apostrophes or the s plus the apostrophe after it, at the end of the word to signify possession of something. E.g. “Charlie’s book”, “Charlie’s” - it belongs to “Charlie” and we’d need an apostrophe before the ‘s’. Or if I’m saying “the students’ books”, and we’re talking about more than one student, it would need the ‘s’ plus the apostrophe - after the ‘s’ if it’s more than one person that it belongs to. So can we do that? We can say “John’s book”. So we know that ‘John’ is a noun, but we can’t say “interesting’s book”. So we know that ‘interesting’ is very likely not a noun.
See if you can substitute it with a pronoun like it or they
What are the exceptions to the properties/checks we carry out to identify a noun.
the or some- doesn’t work for proper noun/specific names e.g. So we can’t say “the Sweden”. Exception with some countries - “the United Kingdom.
plural ‘s’ at the end - doesn’t typically work for mass nouns, because they’re not countable, so we don’t distinguish whether they’re plural or not e.g. “airs” or “rubbishes” typically.
what are compounds?
when two Nouns bought together to make a new word.
Tablespoon, bedroom, drugstore are examples of what?
Compounds
What are blends?
Two or more word blended together
Brexit, Hangry are examples of what?
