2014-09-30 Structure: count/noncount nouns

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NOUNS
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things (including ideas), people, places, time
They can be subjects, objects, and subject complements.

common nouns: teacher  city     day   language
proper nouns:  Greg   Boston  Tuesday  English

concrete: teacher, chair, computer, Boston, CD, rock band, water, air
abstract: English, imagination, love, responsibility, information, music

   count: [container] water (bottle), chicken (animal), egg (the whole thing)
noncount: [material]  water (liquid), chicken (meat),   egg (what's inside it)

language (count = individual languages, noncount = human language in general)
history (count = specific book about history, noncount = the field of history)
meat (count = types of meat, noncount = meat as a material)

Some count nouns have irregular plurals:
child/children, man/men, woman/women, foot/feet, tooth/teeth, mouse/mice
person/people (for casual conversation)
sheep, fish, moose, deer, elk, buffalo (these are the same in singular and plural)
(sheep meat = mutton, moose/deer/elk meat = venison)
phenomenon/phenomena, criterion/criteria, (medium/media, datum/data)
cactus/cacti, fungus/fungi, radius/radii
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p. 97 exercise 2
2 a work
3 a history
4 a talk
5 space
6 a time
7 criteria
8 time
9 Work
10 fish
11 Soda
12 milk
13 history
14 a film

a hair = a strand of hair
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As I use the words:
Money is a countable thing, but "money" is a noncount noun.

You will sometimes see "mass noun" for concrete noncount nouns for materials.
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carton = box for liquids (carton of milk, carton of orange juice)
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Homework: p. 105-107 reading and questions