Hello! Today we're going to take a look at the grammar topic of nouns.
I'm Julie Ciancio.
I'm the Dean of the College of Education from Westcliff University.
Let's go!
So nouns can be the names of people.
It can be, for example: "a man", "a woman", "a child", "a boy".
These are all basic nouns.
Nouns can also be proper nouns.
Proper nouns are the specific name of that boy or person.
For example: "Juan" and "Cecelia".
Notice that these proper nouns start with capital letters.
Proper nouns always have to start with a capital letter.
Nouns can also be names of places.
Here we have "a church" and "a city".
Remember that proper nouns
are the exact name of that church or that city.
So these proper nouns might be something like
"St. James Church" or "London".
Notice again that these start with capital letters.
Nouns can also be the names of things.
For example, "a car" or "birds".
Nouns can be singular or plural.
We have one cat or two cats.
Notice how the plural ends in "s".
However, be careful!
In English we have the concept of uncountable nouns.
These uncountable nouns are masses or liquids or quantities of something,
but they're not easily counted, so we can say "some money".
We can't say "a money" or "one money".
Money is considered uncountable.
It's an uncertain quantity;
however, you can count euros and dollars.
You can have hundreds of euros and thousands of dollars.
Water is a liquid and so water is also not countable.
So we can't have "a water" or "one water",
but we could have "one bottle of water" or "one glass of water".
When we're referring to water in general,
we need to use something like "a lot of water" or "a little water".
Remember these are uncountable.
Thank you!