Count vs Non-Count Nouns Quiz

<p>A noun that is used to modify another noun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide context for the head noun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Natural gender refers to the gender of people and animals, while grammatical gender refers to the gender of nouns</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The president of the United States</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Their plural form is formed by adding -[e]s</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A plural verb used with a singular noun for collective meaning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide a complement or postmodifier</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Determiners modify the noun while pre-modifiers provide additional information</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Determiners, prepositions, conjunctions, and exclamations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A unit of vocabulary that has a single meaning and is inflected to form different grammatical forms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A determiner phrase contains a determiner while a noun phrase does not</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>-age, -hood, -dom</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Open classes readily accept new members, while closed classes do not.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nine</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No, it is not usually possible to tell from the form of a word which class it belongs to.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A lexeme is a unit of vocabulary that is inflected to express different grammatical categories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>-age, -hood, -ness, -ment, -tion, -sion, -dom, -ship, -er, -ist</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A determiner phrase is a type of noun phrase containing a determiner, while a noun phrase can function as a subject, object, or complement in a sentence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The inflectional case system of Indo-European is a system in which nouns, pronouns, and adjectives have different forms, known as cases, to indicate their grammatical function in a sentence. In Modern English, this system has largely been abandoned in favor of analytic constructions, which rely on word order, prepositions, and the 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s) to indicate grammatical function.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Personal pronouns in English retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class. This is a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English. For other pronouns, as well as all nouns, adjectives, and articles, grammatical function is indicated only by word order and by prepositions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The eight word classes in English are nouns, determiners, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions. Nouns form the largest word class, and verbs the second-largest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Determiners are used to introduce and specify nouns in a noun phrase. They include articles (such as 'a', 'an', and 'the'), demonstratives (such as 'this' and 'that'), and possessive determiners (such as 'my' and 'your').</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Grammatical gender is a system for classifying nouns and other words based on their gender, typically masculine, feminine, or neuter. Natural gender refers to the actual gender of the referent of a noun. English does not have grammatical gender, unlike many other Indo-European languages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Noun adjuncts are nouns that modify other nouns in a noun phrase. They can be used to specify or describe the referent of the noun they modify. For example, 'car' is a noun adjunct in the phrase 'car engine'. Noun adjuncts in English are typically not inflected for case or gender.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Examples of historical, social, cultural, and regional varieties of English that diverge from the grammar described in this article include dialects such as Scottish English, African American Vernacular English, and Appalachian English, as well as historical forms of English such as Middle English and Old English.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during the Middle English period.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Modern English retains features relating to natural gender, namely the use of certain nouns and pronouns (such as he and she) to refer specifically to persons or animals of one or other genders and certain others (such as it) for sexless objects – although feminine pronouns are sometimes used when referring to ships (and more uncommonly some airplanes and analogous machinery) and nation-states.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Particular forms of noun phrases include: phrases formed by the determiner the with an adjective, as in the homeless, the English (these are plural phrases referring to homeless people or English people in general); phrases with a pronoun rather than a noun as the head (see below); phrases consisting just of a possessive; infinitive and gerund phrases, in certain positions; certain clauses, such as that clauses and relative clauses like what he said, in certain positions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Coordinators such as and, or, and but can be used at various levels in noun phrases, as in John, Paul, and Mary; the matching green coat and hat; a dangerous but exciting ride; a person sitting down or standing up.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An adjunct noun is a noun modifying another noun, which is typically the head noun. Adjunct nouns can be premodifiers or postmodifiers of the head noun. In English, adjunct nouns are often preceded by a preposition. An example of a noun phrase that includes a noun adjunct is that rather attractive young college student to whom you were talking.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Noun phrases can also be placed in apposition (where two consecutive phrases refer to the same thing), as in that president, Abraham Lincoln, . (where that president and Abraham Lincoln are in apposition). In some contexts, the same can be expressed by a prepositional phrase, as in the twin curses of famine and pestilence (meaning 'the twin curses' that are 'famine and pestilence').</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Animals are triple-gender nouns, being able to take masculine, feminine and neuter pronouns. Generally there is no difference between male and female in English nouns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Determiners are words that come at the beginning of a noun phrase and specify, for example, which entity is being referred to, as in the definite article the, or how many entities are being referred to, as in the cardinal numbers one or two. Pre-modifiers are adjectives that come before the head noun and describe or limit it in some way, as in the rather attractive young college student.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Infinitive and gerund phrases are noun phrases that are formed from verbs. Infinitive phrases consist of the infinitive form of a verb (to + base form of the verb) and can be used in certain positions in a noun phrase, such as the subject of a sentence or as a post-modifier. Gerund phrases consist of the -ing form of a verb and can also be used in certain positions in a noun phrase, such as the object of a sentence or as a pre-modifier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A clitic is a morpheme that is phonologically dependent on a nearby word, while an affix is a bound morpheme that is attached to a root or stem.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The debate is whether the possessive form is an affix or a clitic construction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A noun phrase is a phrase that functions grammatically as a noun within a sentence, typically as the subject or object of a verb.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Examples of postmodifiers include prepositional phrases, relative clauses, certain adjective or participial phrases, and dependent clauses or infinitive phrases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Synesis is a grammatical phenomenon where a word is inflected or conjugated according to the sense implied, rather than the grammatical form. In English, this can occur with singular nouns that have a collective meaning, such as 'government'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An English noun phrase typically includes a determiner, pre-modifiers such as adjectives or noun adjuncts, and a complement or postmodifier such as a prepositional phrase or relative clause.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Countable nouns have singular and plural forms, while uncountable nouns do not. Some nouns, such as 'wine', can function as both countable and uncountable nouns depending on the context.</p> Signup and view all the answers