120 hr. TEFL Course Module 4-Writing (Pt.6 Nouns)

Module 4: Writing

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4.2 Grammar

Understanding sentence structure is a key aspect of grammar, but there are many other grammatical rules that are important for your students to know and understand. As you may already know, grammar is the set of rules for the English language. While we do not have the time to discuss every grammar rule in this section, we will cover the basics and make sure that your students have a good basis of knowledge from which to work, and that they understand how to create sentences that are grammatically correct and convey the meaning they are intending. We have already discussed the parts of speech in a previous module, but now we will look at those parts of speech in more detail and discuss some of the rules regarding how to use them.

4.2.1 Nouns (1 of 3)

As we discussed in an earlier module, a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Here are some different types of nouns:

• Proper nouns: The names of specific places, people, or things.
• Common nouns: General or colloquial names.
• Concrete nouns: People, places, or things that are tangible.
• Abstract nouns: Ideas that are intangible. 

Nouns can be tricky because the term encompasses many different types of words. When using nouns, one of the grammatical rules you need to look out for most is whether or not you should pluralize a noun and how to do so.

When is a noun pluralized?

Not every noun has a plural form because it does not always make sense for there to be more than one of something. Count nouns refer to nouns that can be counted, such as “cup,” “table,” and “monkey.” These nouns represent a specific object that there can be more than one of. Non-count nouns are nouns that cannot be counted because they already represent a group of objects or a type of object. For example, “water” is a non-count noun because you cannot look at the ocean and count the water.