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1 Discovering Grammar
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1.1 Nouns
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How many types of nouns are their and what are they?
4
Concrete
abstract
proper noun
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What is a proper noun? What happens to proper nouns?
The name of a person, place or institution. They always begin with a capital letter. -
What is a collective noun?
A collective nouns refers to a group of objects, animals or people. It is a singular word that can be made plural. -
How can adjectives be made into abstract nouns?
Two ways.
Regular way is to add ness - ill become illness
irregular way has to be remembered high become height.. Pleasant become pleasure. -
What is an abstract noun?
An abstract noun cannot be seen or touched. It can be be a feeling a state of mind, a quality, an idea, an occasion or a particular time. -
1.2 Capital Letters
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Proper nouns and adjective always start with...
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Capital letter are also used for titles of what?
People, books, plays, films and magazines -
Buildings and institutions also get a capital letter. Give three examples, one the party in power in England, my former university and my men's group.
Conservative Party
University College Dublin
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What religious words are capitalised?
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1.3 Subject and Object
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What is the object in a sentence? Do all sentences have to have an object?
The object is either a noun or pronoun and has something done to it.
No
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