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NOUNS AND VERBS
• PREPARED BY:
▫ MR. SASIGARAN MONEYAM
▫ FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION
▫ SULTAN IDRIS EDUCATION UNIVERSITY, MALAYSIA
NOUNS
CONCRETE
NOUNS
COMMON
NOUN
Type Of
Nouns
ABSTRACT
NOUNS
COUNTABLE
NOUNS
UNCOUNTABLE
NOUNS
POSSESSIVE
NOUNS
PROPER
NOUN
COLLECTIVE
NOUNS
CONCRETE NOUNS
 Name of :
Can be seen or touched
Examples:
i. Finger
ii. Foot
iii. Hotel
iv. Hospitals
v. spoon
vi. Table
vii. Grapes
viii. Lemon
ABSTRACT NOUNS
 Nouns that name a quality or something that cannot
be seen or touched.
Example: colour, happiness, pain, beauty, speed,
laughter, sleep, and darkness.
Can form abstract nouns from many words.
ABSTRACT
NOUNS
WORD
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Good
Friend
Brave
Human
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Goodness
Friendship
Bravery
Humanity
REGULAR NOUNS
• Add ‘s’ or ‘es’ for plural nouns
Singular
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•
•
•
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Book
Boy
Cup
Pen
Potato
Plural
•
•
•
•
•
Books
Boys
Cups
Pens
Potatoes
IRREGULAR PLURAL NOUNS
Singular
• Man
• Woman
• Child
PLURAL
• Men
• Women
• Children
COUNTABLE
• Nouns that we can count.
• We can use the indefinite article a/an with countable
nouns.
COUNTABLE
A, an, a few
Some, plenty of, a
lot of
A large number of
• When a countable noun is singular, we must use a word
like a/the/my/this with it.
- I want an orange.
- Where is my bottle?
• When a countable noun is plural, we can use it alone.
- I want oranges.
- bottles can break.
UNCOUNTABLE
• Uncountable nouns are those that have only
one form and we cannot count them.
UNCOUNTABLE
a cup of coffee
a bottle of water
a slice of cake
• Siti drink a cup of milk everyday.
POSSESSIVE NOUNS
• Possessive nouns are used to show possession
(owning, or having).
• To form the possessive, add ‘s to singular nouns.
• If the noun is plural not ending in “s”, add ‘s.
Syed’s
boy’s
• The sky's color is changing.
Children’s
Women’s
• If the noun in plural ending in “s”, add
apostrophe (‘) after the “s”.
• Example :
Students’
Pupils’
• My sisters' names are Kate and Nikki.
• The children’s party was a blest.
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
• Collective nouns are names used for a number
of people, things or animals together and
treated as one.
A group of friends
• Father bought a bunch of bananas yesterday.
PROPER NOUNS
• Proper nouns are the special names of persons
and things.
• Begins with capital letters.
• Examples:
- Adam
- Siti
- Tanjong Malim
- Giant
• Eg: -This is Kamal. He’s a doctor.
-These people are from Bangkok.
- Hari Raya Aidilfitri is a busy time for
Sakinah’s mother.
VERBS
Shows action
VERBS
State of being
Example sentences :
• Shows action
a. The footballer kick the ball
( In this sentences kick is the verb and it
shows action)
• State of being
a. He is a talented diver.
( In the sentence, there is no action but a state
of being which is expressed by the verb is)
CONT.
Action
verbs
Group of
verbs
Physical
actions
Mental
actions
Be verbs
Nonaction
verbs
(e.g. am is are,
was,were)
Auxiliary
verbs
(e.g. be, do,
have, modals)
Action verbs
Examples the two groups of verbs :
Physical actions
I. The swimmers practise 5 hours a day.
II. We jog in the track on weekends.
Mental actions
I. They sensed something was wrong yesterday.
II. I dreamt of playing handball for the state when I was young.
Non-action verbs
Be verbs
I. I am twenty two years old.
II. Suzie was here a while ago.
Auxiliary verbs
I. She is eating at cafe now
II. They have gone home
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