Nouns Flashcards
Common nouns
Used to describe everyday objects, animals, places, people and ideas. They do not need capital letters.
Concrete nouns
Nouns describing things that can be seen and touched
Abstract noun
Nouns that refer to ideas or feelings, occasions or time - things that can’t be seen or touched, e.g. love, bravery, afternoon
Collective noun
The name given to a collection of individuals - people or things, e.g. a bunch of grapes, a flock of birds
Noun phrase
Several words that, when grouped together, perform the same function as a noun, e.g.
boy
The boy
The kind boy
Prepositional phrase
A preposition such as in or on followed by a noun or pronoun that act together as an adjective (describing a noun) or an adverb (describing a verb) within a sentence, e.g. in the field, on the bus
Pluralising nouns ending in -s, -x, -z, -sh, -ch, -ss
Add -es
Pluralising nouns ending in a consonant + y
-ies
Pluralising nouns ending in -f
-ves
Pluralising nouns ending in -fe
-ves
Irregular nouns - belief, chief, cliff, roof
Add -s
Irregular nouns - analysis, appendix, crisis
End in -es
Irregular nouns - sheep, deer, moose, series, scissors
Stay the same
Words ending in z
Add -zes
Pluralising nouns ending in -o, e.g. echo, hero, potato, tomato
Add -es
Nouns that change completely - child, woman, person, man, foot, tooth, goose, mouse, ox
Children, women, people, men, feet, teeth, geese, mice, oxen
Nouns with two plurals - hoof, dwarf, mango, buffalo, index, focus
Hooves/hoofs, dwarves/dwarfs, mangoes/mangos, buffaloes/buffalo, indexes/indices, focuses/foci
Nouns with no plural
Furniture, education, information, homework, livestock, evidence, weather, knowledge
