The noun

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inflection
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making plural forms
boy's - also kind of inflection
common nouns
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people, places, ideas that are not specific
don't need to start with a capital letter unless they begin a sentence
woman, city, dog, shoe
proper nouns
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names of specific places, people or ideas
they always begin with a capital letter
Central Park Zoo, Pacific Ocean
concrete nouns
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witch are able to be experienced through one of five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch
abstract nouns
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They refer to emotions, ideas, concepts, beliefs, or state of being - things you cannot touch
love, anger, acceptance, progress
collective nouns
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groups of people, animals, emotions
class, jury, army, audience, group
personal pronouns
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I, you, he, she, it
relative pronouns
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who, which, that
interogative pronouns
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what, who, which, whom, whose
reflexive pronoun
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himself, themselves
plain noun
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Tom
genitive noun
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Tom's
saxon genetive
nominative noun
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We
(who) mianownik
We went to the shop.
accusative noun
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us
(whom) biernik
The boy remembered us.
natural gender
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english nouns don't have definite articles
a boy, a girl - el chico, la chica
examples of animate nouns unmarked for sex
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a horse (stallion, mare) a friend (boyfriend, girlfriend), people, baby
examples of nouns lexically marked for sex
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mother - father, nun - monk, queen - king
examples of nouns derivationally marked for sex
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actor - actress, waiter - waitress, prince - princess
derivation - the origin or development of something, especially a word
irregular plurals - vowel change
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tooth - teeth, foot -feet, goose - geese
irregular plurals - zero plurals
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deer, fish, sheep
plural octopus
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octopi
plural syllabus
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syllabi
plural phenomennon
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phenomena
plural medium
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media
plural datum
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data
compound nouns
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nouns which consist of more then one word

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