Learning Something Here...: Nouns

名词

A noun is a word that refers to a person, an animal, a place or a thing.

名词是代表人、动物、地方或东西的词。

e.g.

Person 人	girl, teacher, driver, uncle
Animal 动物	butterfly, elephant, hen, kangaroo
Place 地方	school, market, village, lake
Thing 东西	clock, banana, money, fork

There are generally three classes of nouns:

名词一般可分成三类：

a common noun is a common name shared by a class of the same kind;

普通名词是一组相同的物件共同的名称：

e.g.

country, watermelon, camel, doctor

a proper noun is the name of a particular person, animal , place or thing;

专有名词是一个人、动物、地方或东西专有的名称：

e.g.

Martin, Garfield, Malaysia, Proton Wira

* The first letter of proper nouns are written using

capital letters.

专有名词的第一个字母必须大写。

a collective noun refers to a group of things that is regarded as one.

集合名词指一组被视为整体的物件：

e.g.

a class of pupils

a crate of fruits

a flock of birds

Noun song

Exercise 1
Rewrite the sentences with capital letters.

1. mrs lim is my english teacher.

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2. peter and james are uncle tom's sons.

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3. can you meet us in front of tanjung cinema?

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4. julie is going to penang in june.

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5. sam is studying in prima college.

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6. jade tower is next to maybank.

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Fill in the blanks with the correct collective nouns.