LECTURE 8

LECTURE 8

1. Nouns:

2. Partitive constructions:

Both count and noncount nouns can enter constructions denoting part of a whole, which relate to the quantity and quality:

3. Three classes of determiners:

We also distinguish:

4. Articles:

5. Abstract nouns and articles:

6. Proper nouns:

7. Number - plural forms:

Voicing: knife - knives.

Vowel change: mouse - mice, goose - geese.

Zero plural: many sheep, five hundred (however, such nouns of quantity have normal plural forms when not preceded by numerals: hundreds of people).

Singular nouns: news.

Plural nouns: police, trousers.

8. Gender:

Animate nouns

Personal Nonpersonal

dual (police officer) female common (baby) familiar animal (F/M/D)

male collective (family) less

familiar

animal


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