[Nouns]

Are you familiar with all types of the nouns?

In most exams, "Nouns" often focuses on the following four parts:

(1) Uncountable nouns: air/ smoke/ vapor/ thunder/ energy/ power/ rice/ garbage/ luggage/ traffic/ food/

• small quizzes:

• few furnitures (x)

• little furniture (v)

• No news are good news. (x)

• No news is good news. (v)

• Which one is incorrect? Long exposure to intensive sunlights may result in a wide variety of skin diseases. The answer is sunlights. It should be “sunlight”.

(2) Irregular Plural Nouns

• singular noun -> plural noun

• Man -> men

• Child -> children

• One sheep - > two sheep

• Wife -> wives

• Basis -> bases

(3) Determiners

• Which is incorrect? Drivers who think they own the road make cycling a dangerous sports. Answer: sport

(4) Countable nouns can be singular or plural

• Dog is a useful animal. (x)

• A dog is a useful animal. (v)

• The dog is a useful aninal. (v)

  
  

• Which is incorrect? During the past decade, the crime rate have been increasingly growing in most cities of the world.

  Answer: crime rates

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[Pronouns]

A pronoun (I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody, etc.) is a word that takes the place of a noun.

In the sentence Joe saw Jill, and he waved at her, the pronouns he and her take the place of Joe and Jill, respectively.

PRONOUNS ARE IMPORTANT.

Other than one's name, pronouns are the way people identify us and refer to us.

When we refer to "personal" pronouns, we don't mean that these pronouns are necessarily private information (generally they are not), we mean that they are pronouns referring to a unique and individual person.

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