Name: NOUNS｜基礎英語語法課程｜5課時 (NOUNS | Basic English Grammar Course | 5 lessons)
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In today's video, I'm going to tell you about nouns.

Because in English, nouns are very important.

They are the basic element of a sentence.

So if you want to speak English, you need to know about the different kinds

And I'm going to try and teach you as well as I can.

Now in English, concrete nouns are people places or things,

That you can see, that you can smell, or taste, or hear, or touch.

So you can basically use your five senses.

If we talk about people, you could say, a man

And if you talk about things, you could say a shoe,

you could say a marker, you could talk about a dog

So abstract nouns, unlike concrete nouns, are ideas, concepts, emotions.

They are things that exist, but you cannot see them, or taste them.

To give you a few examples, we could talk about love,

These are all words that represent ideas, concepts... okay

Now, let's get into more detail about nouns.

Let's now see the difference between common nouns

and proper nouns which are very important in English.

So common nouns and proper nouns refer to people, places, things, ideas.

But if we talk about a specific woman, for example, me, Fanny.

That becomes a proper noun with a capital 'F'.

because, and you should know this, proper nouns are always capitalized.

Let's take a great city, London, of course.

Remember proper nouns - always capitalized.

But if we take a specific dog, like Snoopy - capital 'S',

If we talk about things again, but for example, a car,

But if we name the brand, the specific brand of the car like Volvo,

And finally, and we can say, a team - common noun.

But if we name a specific team, for example, the best football team, Manchester United,

then that's a proper noun and it's capitalized.

Now mind you, 'team', is a special word because it's called

a collective noun in English because it refers to a group of people.

So collective nouns can be used as singular nouns or plural nouns.

So now that we know a lot about nouns in English, Let's practice finding nouns in a sentence.

Okay, first, In my class at Oxford University, I have many

If we take the first sentence, In my class at Oxford University, I have many

We also have a proper noun, Oxford University.

We know it's a proper noun because it's capitalized.

The second sentence is, My best friend is Jen.

Now in this sentence, the noun is, friend - common noun.

And there's also the word, Jen, is also a noun but a proper noun.

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