WRIT2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mass Noun

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30 Jun 2018

School

Department

Writing

Course

WRIT2250

Professor

Amber Gwynne

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Week 5 Lecture

Nouns:

regular/irregular nouns

common/proper nouns

concrete/abstract nouns

count/non‐count or mass nouns

collective nouns

pronouns

name of a person, place or thing

Nouns:

can inflect (change form) to show number

can inflect to show possession (by adding an ‘s’)

can combine with determiners and adjectives

can modify other nouns (closed, hyphened and open) – compound nouns

can function as subjects, objects, and complements of verbs

Common vs Proper:

Common – general people, places and things

Proper – specific to people, places and things

Concrete vs Abstract:

Concrete – something perceivable by the senses (see, hear, smell, taste, touch)

Abstract – not tangible (actions, events)

Count vs Mass (non‐count):

Count – nouns you can count

Mass – can’t be counted (quantities and made plural)

Can function as either

Count (number) and Mass (amount)

Count (fewer) and Mass (less)

Plurals:

Add ‘s’ to regular nouns

add ‘es’

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