Comprehension & Written Expression Lecture01 Nouns

Hello students and welcome to this video

lesson of comprehension and written

expression course whereby I will

consolidate this week's nouns lecture.

Accordingly, this video's contents are

going to be covered as follows. For

starters, I will begin by uncovering the

grammatical aspects of English nouns,

including its definition,

identification, classification, and

nominalization.

Next, I'll close the gap between the use

the use and usage of nouns by unlocking

its semantic and syntactic aspects

before highlighting and enlisting the

common errors of English nouns. And to

conclude with, I will wrap up the

contents of this video with a quick

rehash to its key takeaways. So, without

further ado, let's get started.

As regard for their meaning, nouns are

defined as lexical units that name words

such as objects, persons, concepts, or

places like illustrated in these

examples.

Now that you understand what do nouns

refer to, let us move on next to their

classification.

Technically, nouns have overlapping

features even though they belong to

different categories.

However, they can be classified as

proper or common according to their to

their reference, as abstract, concrete

or collective based on their nature, as

simple or compound according to their

morphological structure, and as

countable or uncountable depending on

our ability to count them. Please pause

the video and check the chart for

further details about these type these

types and make sure to scrutinize the

examples in the upcoming slide for a

more tangible distinction between these

types.

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Given your current comprehension of

these fundamentals about nouns,

it's worth bringing to your attention

that in terms of quantity, nouns are the

most frequently used part of speech in

English.

However, in terms of quality, it's

important to familiarize yourself with

their functions to communicate your

message in writing more effectively.

When it comes to the functions of nouns,

you've probably guessed by now that

their core function is to name or denote

people, places, things, or abstract

concepts.

But nouns don't just carry meaning.

They also play important roles in

sentence structure. Syntactically, nouns

can act as the subject, the object or

the complement of a sentence. The roles

that fulfilled respectively as nouns can

perform an action, receive it, add extra

information, modify another noun, or

show relationships like ownership.

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Now, aside from their role in the

sentence, nouns also come with another

important feature, number, which means

deciding whether the noun refers to one

thing or more than one, singular or

plural. As we've already covered in the

lecture hall, this is often as easy as

adding an s S e s i v s or ie s at the

end of the word. But there are

exceptions. Some nouns, especially those

borrowed from other languages, keep

their original plural forms and others

don't change at all. So, when you're not

sure, it's always a good a good idea to

do a quick check.

Speaking of check, I'd like to warn you

with how tricky a compound noun can be,

especially when a simple noun is

modified by an adjective that might be

mistaken for compound, like in the

examples future career and social life.

This is where checking the dictionary

comes in handy again to help you avoid

possible pitfalls in your writing.

Read through the following examples and

take notes of the highlighted nouns to

get familiar with their how they're

pluralized.

And don't forget to refine the notes you

took during last Monday's lecture as you

follow along with this video lesson.

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With that out of the way,

it's time to highlight the common

mistakes. you might overlook when using

nouns in writing. As the list shows,

there are four in total. Two that can be

corrected simply by identifying the type

of noun you're using, a third that needs

learning spelling techniques, and a

fourth that requires a more a thorough

review to find a clearer, more precise

noun for the concept you're trying to

express.

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As a final remark, I'd like to draw your

attention to nominalization techniques

that are the methods of turning other

parts of speech into nouns by adding

suffixes such as ants, ness, or meant.

While this is useful, avoid overusing

using nominalizations

and whenever possible, try to use

genuine naturally occurring nouns.

That's all for today.

By now, I hope you've gained a solid

understanding of how to use nouns

effectively in your writing.

If you'd like some extra practice, feel

free to check out the quick quiz linked

below.

Please make sure to log in as a guest

until the technical issue of Moodle is

resolved as shown in the example

provided.

Until next time, stay curious and keep

writing to keep improving.

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