Nouns in English (1)

Nouns are not unfamiliar to most people. Most people also have certain concepts about nouns, which are nothing more than parts of speech such as "teacher, chair, party, philosophy" in life. Therefore, nouns are the general names for people, things, things and some abstract concepts. So, today, as far as English nouns are concerned, I will elaborate some short stories about these words in detail.

nouns in English are basically the same as the range functions we use in Chinese, so what exactly do they contain?

first of all, let's talk about the classification of nouns. Generally speaking, nouns can be divided into ordinary nouns and proper nouns according to the meaning of words, or into countable nouns and uncountable nouns according to the number of words.

(1) Common nouns and proper nouns

Common nouns, as their names suggest, are common nouns. What we call "teacher (teacher), chair (party), philosophy (philosophy)" are all common nouns, and articles can be added before them to express specific or general reference (the article part will be detailed later). Then, under common nouns, there is another kind of word called collective noun. Why do you want to single it out? Because the number of such nouns is special in the future grammar, we can understand them as a collection of the same nouns, such as "people (people), family (family), army (army)" and so on, and each word usually contains plural meanings.

Next, there are proper nouns, which, like their nouns, mean exclusive and exclusive. For example, a person's name "John, Lily, Emma" is exclusive to a person; Or place names, such as "China, British, Japan", belong to this place in the world. And time names, such as "Monday (Monday), May (May), Thanksgiving Day", etc., people will know when it is when they mention it ... Those with such attributes can be regarded as proper nouns. I don't know if you have found out that proper nouns actually start with the first letter capitalized, which is also a feature of proper nouns. Besides, no articles can be added before proper nouns.

(2) Countable nouns and uncountable nouns

This classification is very easy to understand. We know that nouns in English can be counted and uncountable. Generally speaking, they can be roughly divided according to common sense, but due to cultural differences and language habits, there will be some deviations. Countable nouns, such as "dogs (dogs), cats (cats), pigs (pigs)" are very common (usually followed by -s to indicate the plural), while uncountable nouns, such as "water (water), milk (milk), information (information)" and other common forms. Then there will be some special examples in language differences, for example, "soap" can be regarded as countable together in our Chinese; But it is an uncountable noun in English, so you can't add -s directly after it.

(3) compound nouns

In addition, because the times are constantly changing, many new words will appear in this kind of words, which can generally be regarded as the combination of some parts of speech. For example:

bedroom is a combination of bed and room;

There are also some hyphens "-"

daughter-in-law (daughter-in-law) is a combination of daughter (daughter) and in-law (legal), which can be said to be very vivid and intuitive.

So this is an overall exposition of English nouns themselves. Of course, there are still many edges and corners that are not involved, which will be added slowly in the later exposition. Today's original intention is to let everyone have a basic understanding of nouns, so we will elaborate on the functions of nouns in grammar in the next article.