Nouns

Question 1

What is a noun?

Answer 1

It is a word that indicates a person, place, or thing

Question 2

Which are the three functions a noun can take in a sentance?

Answer 2

Subject, object, or predicate.

Question 3

Subject

Answer 3

The person or thing, performing, or controlling the action of the verb.

Question 4

Objects

Answer 4

It is the person or thing which receives the action.

Question 5

Which are the three types of objects?

Answer 5

Direct, indirect, and object of a preposition

Question 6

Direct object

Answer 6

The ones that receive the action of the verb in a sentence or clause

Question 7

Indirect object

Answer 7

Person or thing who receives the direct object of the verb

Question 8

Objects of a preposition

Answer 8

Nouns which are part of a prepositional phrase.

Question 9

Predicate nouns

Answer 9

Nouns that follow linking verbs . They serve to rename or reidentify the subject.

Question 10

In the oredicate nouns, what happens if the noun is accompanied by any direct modifier?

Answer 10

The entire noun phrase acts predicatively.

Question 11

What is a common noun?

Answer 11

A noun that identifies general people, places, or things.

Question 12

What is a proper noun?

Answer 12

Nouns that are used to identify an absolutely unique person, place, or thing. Names someone or something that is one of a kind. It is capitalized.

Question 13

Which type of things are proper nouns?

Answer 13

Names of people, places, or events.
Brands.
Appellations, words added to a someone’s name.
Job titles and familial roles, as a noun of address

Question 14

Concrete nouns

Answer 14

They name people, places, animals, or things that are ohysically tangible.

Question 15

Abstract nouns

Answer 15

They name intangible things, such as concepts, ideas, feelings, characteristics, attributes, etc.

Question 16

Are gerunds concrete or abstract?

Answer 16

They are abstract.

Question 17

What is a countable noun?

Answer 17

Countable nouns are the ones that can be counted as individual units or separable items.
They can be counted with numbers.
We can use a/an with them.
We can use the plural form.

Question 18

What is an uncountable noun?

Answer 18

Nouns which cannot be separated and counted as individual units or elements. They cannot take an indefinite article, nor can be made plural. They can be tangible or untangible things.

Question 19

Are countable nouns that are describing mesuraments of distance time or amount singular or plural?

Answer 19

They are singular because they are considered a sum of things

Question 20

What is a quantifier?

Answer 20

A kind of determiner that specifies an amount of something

Question 21

Too much

Answer 21

Used with uncountable nouns

Question 22

Too many

Answer 22

Used with countable nouns

Question 23

Fewer

Answer 23

Used with countable nouns

Question 24

Less

Answer 24

Used with uncountable nouns

Question 25

What is a collective noun?

Answer 25

Nouns that refer to a collection or group of multiple people, animals, or things.

Question 26

Do collective nouns work as singular or plural in a sentence?

Answer 26

They work as singular.

Question 27

Plural nouns

Answer 27

Nouns that refer to multiple people, places, or things, and they primarly en in -s, -es, -ies.

Question 28

What is the difference between collective and plural nouns?

Answer 28

That collective nouns refer to a group of individuals in a single unit, whereas plural nouns refer to multiple individuals.

Question 29

When do collective nouns function as plural?

Answer 29

When the individuals in the group are functioning as individuals.

Question 30

What is a compound noun?

Answer 30

It is a noun consisting of two or more words working together as a single unit to name a person, place, or thing.

Question 31

How are compounds recognized?

Answer 31

They can be recognized because the meaning of the two words put together is different than the meaning of the words separately.

Question 32

Open compound nouns

Answer 32

Written as two separate words

Question 33

Hyphanated compounds

Answer 33

The ones that are united by a hyphon

Question 34

Closed compound nouns

Answer 34

The ones that are written as one word

Question 35

What is nominalization?

Answer 35

It is the creation of a noun from verbs or adjectives

Question 36

How is nominalization normally done?

Answer 36

By adding sufixes

Question 37

Conversion/ zero derivation

Answer 37

Creation of a noun from a verb or adjective without altering it

Question 38

Suffixes

Answer 38

Certing grouping if letters that can be attached to the emd of words to change the meaning

Question 39

How can we create a noun (gerund) from a verb?

Answer 39

By adding -ing

Question 40

How can we create a noun of agency and profesion from a verb?

Answer 40

By adding -or, -er, -r

Question 41

How can we create nouns of recipience from a verb?

Answer 41

By adding -ee

Question 42

How can we create a noun of generak action from a verb?

Answer 42

By adding -tion, -sion, -ance, -ment, -ence.

Also -al, and -ure work in this case

Question 43

How can we create a noun from an adjective?

Answer 43

By adding -ness, -y, -ity, -ance, -ence

Question 44

How can we create nominal adjectives into nouns?

Answer 44

By adding “the” before

Question 45

How can we create nouns from infinitives?

Answer 45

By adding “to”