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Siti Nuraziza Tuzzuhro

 Noun is a word that names a person, place,
thing, or idea. Noun is used in a sentence as
a subject or object or as object of a
preposition.

Noun

Singular - Plural
(Tunggal) (Jamak)
 Katabenda tunggal (singular
noun) berakhiran f atau fe bentuk jamaknya
ditambah akhiran -ves.
shelf - shelves
knife - knives

 Perubahan tidak beraturan dari bentuk

tunggal (singular) kedalam bentuk jamak
(plural).
person - people
 Katabenda jamak (plural nouns) umumnya
dibentuk dari kata benda tunggal (singular
noun) yang ditambah akhiran -s.
nail - nails

 Katabenda tunggal (singular noun) yang

berakhiran ch, sh, ss, atau x ditambah
akhiran -es.
glass - glasses
brush – brushes
 Kata benda tunggal (singular noun) yang
berakhiran o ditambah akhiran -es, namun
beberapa kata benda lainnya yang berakhiran
o hanya ditambah -s.
potato - potatoes
photo - photos

 Kata benda tunggal (singular

noun) berakhiran y dimana huruf sebelumnya
adalah konsonan, bentuk jamaknya ditambah
akhiran -ies.
baby - babies
 A concrete noun refers to people or things that
exist physically. It can be identified through one
of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing,
or smell).

a. Proper Noun: A noun which is begun by capital

letter and as the name of person or place
(Poltekkes Palembang)
b. Common Noun: A noun which names a
general person, place, thing, or idea
(magazine, house, school, mosque)
c. Material: Related to mining (cotton, silver,
gold, marvel)
d. Collective: Certain group (army, group, team,
crew)
 A noun that cannot be perceived using one of the five
senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, smelling). Abstract
noun refers to ideas, emotions, and concept.

 The characteristics:
1. Add –ment (agree – agreement, manage-management,
develop - development)
2. Add –ion, ation, ication (apply – application, confuse –
confusion, connect-connection)
3. Add –y (deliver – delivery, discover – discovery, sweet –
sweety)
4. Add –ance/-ence (appear – appearance, differ –
difference)
5. Add –ness (good – goodness, happy – happiness)
6. Some nouns get the form from adjective (beautiful –
beauty, deep – depth, hot – heat)
COUNTABLE NOUNS

 Countable nouns have a plural

form

 Singular: a car
 an eggplant

Three
books
Plural Some
Form books
Many
books
 a mobile phone  five mobile phones
 a computer  seven computers

 a business magazine  three business

magazines
 an english book
 nine english books
 a dictionary
 eleven dictionaries

SINGULAR FORM PLURAL FORM

  We can use countable nouns with
certain definition of numbers.

 Two kilograms tomatoes

 Five dictionaries
 Seven group of cows
 Tons of Oranges
 Three kilograms lemons
 Eighty students
UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

Uncountable nouns refers to substances,

liquids, and abstract ideas.We cannot
"count" them.
For example, we cannot count "milk". We
can count "bottles of milk" ( quantifiers)
or "litres of milk", but we cannot count
"milk" itself.
I drink a cup of coffee in everyday.
 There is any sugar in the kitchen.
 My mother buy seven bottles of milk for a
week.
 She eats a bar of chocolate whenever she
wants.
 He met me with a bunch of flower in his
arms.
 There is so much butter in this meal.
 Everybody feels the love inside himself.
 We have a group of furniture in our house.
 They wanted some salt for their plumbs.
 In summer, I like drinking water with a block
of ice.
 I bought a pocket of tea for my guests.
 There was so much snow that we all were
cold when we were outside.
 The room has little light. We nearly can see
each other.
 Type of sentence Countable Uncountable
+ We need an apple some butter
some apples some milk
- We don’t need a tomato any rice
any tomatoes any sugar
? Do we need a tomato? any rice?
any tomatoes? any sugar?

 Use a / an with singular countable nouns.

 Use the before singular countable or common noun.
 Use some with plural countable nouns and uncountable nouns in
+ sentences.
 Use any with plural countable nouns and uncountable nouns in –
or ? sentences.
 We can also use some in ? to ask for and offerings:
 Can I have some coffee?
 Do you want some biscuits?

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Some: Affirmative sentences:
There is some money

Any: Negative and Interrogative

sentences:
Is there any money?
No, there isn’t.

There isn’t any money.

 some Milk  some Wine
 some Biscuits  some Cars
a Chair  some People
 some  some Ice
Coffee
 some  some / an cream
Pasta
 some  an Orange
Money
 some  some Fruit
Students
 some / a  some Fish

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1. There isn't _____ sugar in my coffee.
2. There are ______ oranges in the
fridge.
3. There aren't ______ tomatoes on the
table.
4. There is ______ oil in the kitchen.
5. There is ______ orange juice.
  Possible
 Use How much…? answers:
with uncountable  I drink a lot of
nouns. water.
 How much water do  I drink quite a lot.
you drink?  I don’t drink much
 Use How many…? water. (not much)
 I don’t drink any
with plural water.
countable  None.
nouns.  Not many
 How many students do (students).
you have?

© Rafael Moreno Esteban 2007

1. How much/ How many cars are
there?

There are six

cars!
2. How much/ How many Sugar is
there?

There are three spoons of sugar

3. How much/ How many pictures
are there?

There are six

pictures.
4. How much/ How many milk is
there?

There are two

boxes of milk
 Quantifiers
We usually treat uncountable nouns as singular : We
use a singular verb. For example:
 Thisnews is very important.
 Your luggage looks heavy.

You can count uncountable nouns if you use:

 A piece of… cheese
 A bowl of… soup
 A cup of… tea
 A bottle of…syrup
MILK

 A carton of…milk
 A bar of… chocolate
 COUNTABLE UNCOUNTABLE

 All  All of the

 Many (of the)  Most (of the)
 Most (of the)  Much of the
 A lot of  A lot of the
 Lots of  Lots of
 Several (of the)  Several (of the)
 A few (of the)  a little (of the)
 Few (of the)  Little (of the)
 no  no