English 6- trisha

Concrete and abstract nouns – are characterized by their physical or nonphysical state.
Concrete nouns
Medals athletes
Province
Coach

Abstract nouns
Cooperation agility
Leadership strenght
Sportsmanship

Collective nouns
Troop constellation company
Flock committee bunch
Bevy cast council
orchestra

Collective nouns – refers to groups of people, animals and things.

Compound nouns – are made up of two or more words that are taken as a single unit.
Separated hyphenated Combined
Basketball player sister – in – law housewife
Golden rule jack – in – the – box drugstore
Double entry double - decker classmate
Heir apparent follow – up baseball
Water lily maid – in – waiting seamstress

DIFFERENT KINDS OF REFERNECE MATERIALS

1. Newspaper – publication usually issued daily, that contains currents news, editorials, feature articles
Obituaries, and advertisements.
2. Magazine – collection of articles, stories, pictures and other special features
3. Atlas – collection of maps, or charts. Ex. Country geography, politics, government, religion, economic
status
4. Encyclopedia – comprehensive reference work that comprises of entries on a wide range of subjects or
body knowledge . arrange alphabetically
5. Almanac – astronomical and astrological information and other important events. Ex. Weather forecast,
tide tables, rising and setting of sun and moon, festivals, statistics, and time lines.
6. Thesaurus – is a reference material that lists words in groups of synonyms and related concepts
7. Dictionary – reference book contains alphabetical lists. Locate information such as word meaning, origin,
pronunciation, and syllabication.
Parts of a dictionary
1. Entries – words in the dicyionary
2. Definition – gives the meaning
3. Part of speech - tell whether the entry word is a noun,pronoun, verb, adjective, etc.
4. Syllabication – shows how a word should be pronounced
5. Pronunciation guide – show how a word should be pronounced
6. Etymology – gives the details about the origin of an entry word
7. Stress mark – shows which syllable of the word should be stressed or accented
8. Guide words – the first and last words on each page of a dictionary