{"id":775,"date":"2019-08-08T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2019-11-26T16:08:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:08:03","slug":"nobody-knows-how-to-write-a-grammar-book-better-than-me-nouns-and-pronouns-countable-nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/nobody-knows-how-to-write-a-grammar-book-better-than-me-nouns-and-pronouns-countable-nouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter One. What Is a Noun? Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This lesson is dedicated to anybody who is an immigrant to the USA, to anybody who is the child of an immigrant, and to anybody who is an ancestor of an immigrant, and that probably includes most of us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Islands, Oceans, and Walls<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nouns and Pronouns: Part Two<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Each noun and each pronoun has inflection<\/strong>; this means that it is either singular or plural<\/strong>. This is reflected in the noun or pronoun\u2019s form, which indicates that there is either one (singular) <\/strong>or two or more (plural) <\/strong>of that item.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nouns<\/strong>   The noun course<\/em> in the sentence \u201cThen I started building a golf course\u201d is singular, whereas the noun courses <\/em>in the sentence \u201cThen I started building golf courses<\/em>\u201d is plural. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pronouns<\/strong>   The pronouns he, she <\/em>and it <\/em>are\nsingular, whereas we<\/em> and they<\/em> are plural. The pronoun you <\/em>can\nbe either singular or plural, depending on its context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Starters 2<\/strong> Beneath each noun in the sentences below, write N<\/em> and beneath each pronoun write P<\/em>. If the noun is singular, write S<\/em> and if it is plural, write #. <\/td><\/tr>
A lot of my friends are gardeners. I never understood it. Then I started <\/em>
building golf courses\u2014it’s gardening on a big scale. <\/em> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>

The oranges of the investigation<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

Countable Nouns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can categorize nouns into two types: countable<\/strong> and noncountable<\/strong>.\nA countable noun is a noun that can be\ncounted<\/strong>. Most common nouns are countable. For example, the word hotel<\/em>\nis countable because you can count one hotel<\/em>,\ntwo hotels<\/em>, three hotels<\/em>, and so on. You can see that countable nouns have a singular form<\/strong> (for example, hotel)<\/em>\nand a plural form<\/strong> (for example, hotels)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use the singular form<\/strong> when you are referring to one<\/strong> of that item. Use the plural form<\/strong> whether you are referring to two units<\/strong> of that item or to billions and billions of units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1-2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singular\nCountable Nouns<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In each example below, the noun is countable and the writer\nis referring to one unit so the noun form must be singular. Notice that each\nsingular countable noun has an article (a<\/em>,\nan<\/em>, the<\/em>) preceding it in the noun determiner position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7        \nThis is an\nisland<\/strong> sitting in the middle of an ocean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7        \nIt’s a\nbig ocean<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7        \nThe wall<\/strong> will happen very soon.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7        \nI’m not a\nglobalist<\/strong>. I’m a nationalist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This lesson is dedicated to anybody who is an immigrant to the USA, to anybody who is the child of an immigrant, and to anybody who is an ancestor of an immigrant, and that probably includes most of us. Islands, Oceans, and Walls Nouns and Pronouns: Part Two Each noun and each pronoun has inflection; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3,40],"tags":[42,43,44],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-culture","category-american-government","category-grammar","category-nouns-and-pronouns","tag-islands","tag-oceans","tag-walls","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}