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Grammar - Common Nouns

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  Common nouns include what we called  collective nouns concrete nouns &  abstract nouns Lets's begin with collective nouns Collective noun is the name of a number of or collection of persons,animals or things taken together and spoken of as a one whole look at the following example, There is a shoal of fish swimming happily in the stream. A group of students is standing in line with their teacher.  The farmer owns a flock  of sheep. There is   a brood of chicks swimming in the pond. The winning  team   of players   cheering happily . The jury found the parishioner guilty.  shoal ,  group , flock , brood  and  team   used in the above sentences are collective nouns they refer to a collection taken as a whole Let's move on to  Concrete Nouns &...

Grammar - Singular & Plural Nouns

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 Singular &Plural Nouns  There are nouns that denote one person or thing and also more than one person or thing. The nouns that refer to one person or thing are called  Singular Nouns  &   The nouns that refer to  more than one person or thing are called Plural Nouns  Look at the following examples        boy boys      ox oxen child children  Th e plural nouns are formed in different  ways They are generally formed by adding    - S   to the singular noun                   boy ,boy s                                 girl , girl s                   book ,book s           ...