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Unit 2 Study Guide: Nouns (Business English)
#1 Common Nouns / What is a common noun?
Name some common nouns?
l Name Homer’s favorite common noun?
l What common noun can’t be taken from William Wallace?
l Name the common noun that starts with a “d.”
l List all the nouns you hear in this clip from The Matrix:
#2 Proper Nouns / What are proper nouns?
Name some proper nouns?
l Name the proper nouns from this famous line in The Princess Bride:
l Whose brain was put in the Bride of Frankenstein?
#3 Collective Nouns / What are collective nouns?
Name some collective nouns?
l Who collectively will fight?
#4 Simple Plurals / Rule 1:
Box of ______.
Rule 2:
You’ll be seeing a lot of ______around here.
Rule 3:
Rule 4:
Rule 5:
#5 Make these Nouns Plural: / couch / relay
ratio / dish
banjo / company
watch / moss
driver / horse
knife / shelf
#6 Irregular Plurals, Always in Plural Form / Some nouns have no set rules for forming the plural.
child =
mouse =
woman =
Some are always written in the plural form.
#7 Compound Nouns / Compound nouns:
If a compound noun is written as one word without a hyphen,
Businesswoman =
Website =
#8 Compound Nouns / · If a compound noun consists of separate or
attorney-at-law =
leave of absence =
personnel manager =
· If no part of a hyphenated compound noun is a noun,
trade-in =
#9 Other Rules / · Figures and alphabetic
· Isolated words are made
· For some words,
· Isolated lowercase letters and.
· Abbreviations are usually
#10 Nouns and the Possessive Form / Nouns used in the possessive form
The apostrophe (’) is used to
????? the beef?
????? that smell?
#11 Singular Possessive / To show the possessive form of most singular nouns,
The ????? midyear sale starts tomorrow.
For nouns ending in an s, x, or z sound,
#12 Plural Possessive / To show the possessive form of a plural noun ending in s,
The ?????? dresses were at the cleaners.
To show the possessive form of a plural noun not ending in s,
The ?????? pool was newly tiled.
#13 Make these nouns possessive: / boys / Gina
car / investors
Jones / attorney
team / Louis
rivers / partners
men / student