onion(洋葱味)--onions(洋葱头).pptVIP

Chapter 3 Nouns Teaching Aims help the Ss to have an understanding about how nouns are used in the English language help the Ss to be clear about the plural form and the possessive form of nouns Teaching Points the plural form of nouns in English The possessive form of nouns in English 1. classification of nouns 2. number forms of nouns 3. partitives 3. possessive form of nouns 4. the gender of nouns 5. usage of nouns in sentence 6. keys to the excises simple nouns Nouns compound nouns derivative nouns A simple noun is a noun that contains only one free morpheme, e.g. man chair A compound noun is a noun that is composed of two or more morphemes, e.g. armchair motherland A derivation noun is a noun that comes from a verb, an adjective or a simple noun with affixes, e.g. arrangement greatness proper nouns Nouns individual nouns common collective nouns nouns material nouns abstract nouns A proper noun is the name used for a particular person, place or thing, and spelt with a capital initial letter, e.g. Anderson, Britain A common noun is a name common to a class of people, things or abstract ideas, e.g. boy, tiger, water. Common nouns can be further divided into individual nouns (e.g. boy, house, tiger ), collective nouns (e.g. family, team), material nouns (e.g. air, tea, snow), abstract nouns (e.g. glory, failure , education) Individual nouns and collective nouns are usually countable nouns (nouns that have plural and which can collocate with numbers and with such determiners as a, an, many few, these, several, etc) while material nouns and abstract nouns are usually uncountable nouns (nouns that can