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English Grammar Part 1: Nouns
Level: Basic
Time taken to Complete: 200 minutes Activity: English is a complicated language. It's rather annoyingly difficult in many respects, and somewhat simplified in others. Many people have difficulty with English spelling. The grammar has it's ups and downs, but here is some help. This series is for those who would like to brush up on or learn about grammar and grammar terminology. But English nouns have no cases, except maybe a form of the Genitive, although most don't consider it to be genitive but prefer to call it Possesive. The difficulty in English Nouns lies in the plurals. However, most nouns are regular and thusly fairly easy. The common ending is -s or -es. The phonetic endings are -/s/ -/z/ or -/ɪz/ ( or /əz/ depending on the dialect). The first ending, /s/ occurs when the word ends with a devoiced sound, cats /kæts/, locks /laks/ (in my dialect), maps /mæps/, beliefs /bilifs/. Now with these rules, one might think English nouns are a piece of cake. But it really isn't because we quite a few irregular nouns. And these are often the most common in daily speech. Then we have the genitive. Where we add 's to the noun. So the Teacher's eyes are the eyes of the the teacher. Then we can have plural which is just adding an ' to the plural that ends with s. So you have a regular word like teacher, then you have teachers, teacher's, and teachers'. That's how it works with that. Many of the irregular ones form it in an even easier way. Man, men, man's. and men's. It seems to stay true for most irregular nouns. login or register to post comments | 1628 reads Tags: (English | English Grammar | English Nouns) |
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