2.1 DEFINITION AND FEATURES
1. +s / +es ------> plural
2. article + Noun
3. certain order
4. SUFFIX
-er, -or, -ment, -ness, -ion, -ity, -ance (-ence), -ure, - al
2.2 GENRE
1. Common Noun vs Proper Noun (name place, time, magazine, group)
common noun
collective noun
material noun
abstract noun ( concrete noun )
2.3 countable noun
uncountable noun
2.4 PROPER NOUNS
people's name
name of a place
name of time ( month, holidays)
name of magazine
name of certain groups
2.5. COMPOUND NOUN
n. + n. - daylight
v. + n. - turntable
a. + v. - dry-cleaning
n. + v. - rainfall
v. + ad. - break-in
ad. + n. - on-looker
n. + ad. - passer-by
a. + n. - greenhouse
ad. + v. - offset
FORMAT OF COMPOUND NOUN
combine together, connect with hyphen, separated by space
2.6 substantivisation [ to make (a word other than a noun) play the grammatical role of a noun in a sentence ]
adjective: rich, dumb, sick, blind, poor
past participle: wounded, accused, unknown, beloved, outcast, firstborn
gerund: feeling, suffering, thinking, writing, printing, building
numbers: on the fours, in his sixties
11. GROUP in SENTENCE
as subject
as object
as compliment
as nominative predicative
as attributive
as appositive
as adverbial
as independent part
