Noun Modification
Pronoun: as subject, as object, possessive adjective,
possessive pronoun, reflective
Countable vs uncountable: table vs bread
Singular vs Plural: regular (book-books) vs irregular
(fish-fish, foot-feet, child-children)
Compoun noun: desk-desks, book-boos
Noun phrase: much money, the result
Noun phrase can be subject, object or complement
Quantifier: some, many, much, few, a few, little, a little,
a lot of, no, less
Articles: definite and indefinite: a/anand the
The words can combine with nouns:
Articles: the way
Possessives: your observation
Demontrative: this approach
Quantifier: many researches
Adjective: good subject
Other noun: reseach findings
IDENTIFYING NOUN
Semantic Clues: Identifying noun by definition (person,
place, thing) ; astronout, firefighter
Structural Clues: sentence position
After an article: The book, in a sentence, I drank the
water
Derivational Clues: by adding suffix ment, er, or
Morphological Clues: by inflectional ending, pensil-pencils
General and specific determiners
Determiners are words which come at the beginning of the
noun phrase.
They tell us whether the noun phrase is specific or general.
Determiners are either specific or general
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