In this video we answer the question: What is a noun? We look at the 8 main types of nouns: - Common nouns - Proper nouns - Countable nouns - Uncountable nouns - Concrete nouns - Abstract nouns - Compound nouns - Collective nouns and we give many examples of each type of noun. We also look at how nouns can often be of more than one type.
This grammar lesson is ideal for English language classes, both for native English speakers and ESOL / ELL / ESL students.
Words that are both nouns and verbs (pronunciation) In English, there are some nouns and verbs which have the same form. However, their pronunciation is different. Usually, the stress falls on the first syllable, when one of these words is used as a noun, whereas when it is used as a verb, it has the stress on the second syllable. Have a look at the list below to become familiar with these verbs and nouns so that you can avoid pronunciation mistakes.
This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu, the Dravidian language Solega, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara from Australia. Chapters offer systematic and detailed analyses of scores of individual nouns across a range of conceptual domains, including 'people', 'places', and 'living things', with each analysis fully grounded in a unified methodological framework.
This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon which, according to some categorizations of word classes, should not occur. John Lowe shows that most transitive nouns and adjectives attested in early Indo-Aryan cannot be analysed as a type of non-finite verb category, but must be acknowledged as a distinct constructional type. The volume provides a detailed introduction to transitivity (verbal and adpositional), the categories of agent and action noun, and to early Indo-Aryan.
