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Noun

Noun

By |March 31, 2022|Categories: Grammar|Tags: , |

The noun is a word expressing substance in the widest sense of the word. In the concept of substance, we include not only names of living beings (e. g. boy, girl, bird) and lifeless things (e. g. table, chair, book), but also names of abstract notions, i. e. qualities, states, actions (kindness, strength, sleep, fear, conversation, fight), abstracted from their bearers. Morphological Characteristics The noun has the following morphological characteristics: Nouns that can be counted have two numbers: singular and plural (e. g. singular: a girl, plural: girls). Nouns denoting living beings (and some nouns denoting [...]