Nouns & Articles

This night class, one of the grammar's group in my class had to present about noun & article. They teach us and give some explanation about it.

It's not easy to describe a noun. In simple terms, nouns are "things" (and verbs are "actions"). Like food. Food (noun) is something you eat (verb). Or happiness. Happiness (noun) is something you want (verb). Or human being. A human being (noun) is something you are (verb).

Noun can be divided into  common nouns, abstract nouns, proper noun, collective noun and possessive nouns.

• Common noun is noun of all things with the same kind or class. 
• Proper noun is name of  one particular person or things. 
• Abstract nouns is things we can only think of  and feel. It can be formed from adjectives or from common nouns or from verbs.
• Possessive noun is adding 's or ' to show possession.

An article is a word that combine with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by noun.

We often use a or an :

• In descriptions

Eg : She is an interesting person.

          He got a loud voice.

• When we say what something is, or what somebody’s job is

Eg : This is a return ticket.

    I am an engineer.

• We use a before a consonant sound ( b, c, d, g, j, m)

Eg : A book

   A coat

• We use an before a vowel sound ( a, e, i, o, u)

Eg : An addres

   An egg

• We choose a or an because of pronounciation, not spelling

Eg : an hour ( h is silent, so hour is like our )

           a university (  pronounced ‘ you-niversity’ )

           a one-pound stamp ( pronounced ‘ wun……’)

           a European ( pronounced ‘ you-ropean’)