Tiêu đề Nouns (обновлено 27.08.2025).pdf ✅

Abstract nouns, as their name implies, name intangible things, such as concepts, ideas, feelings, characteristics, attributes, etc. For instance: • love • hate • decency • conversation • emotion Abstract nouns may change their meaning and become class nouns. This change is marked by the use of the article and of the plural number: beauty – a beauty – beauties. e.g. He was responsive to beauty and here was cause to respond. (London) She was a beauty. (Dickens) ... but she isn't one of those horrid regular beauties. (Aldington) 3. Countable and Uncountable Nouns Countable nouns (also known as count nouns) are nouns that can be considered as individual, separable items, which means that we are able to count them with numbers—we can have one, two, five, 15, 100, and so on. We can also use them with the indefinite articles a and an (which signify a single person or thing) or with the plural form of the noun. Single Countable Nouns Plural Countable Nouns a cup two cups an ambulance several ambulances a phone 10 phones Countable nouns contrast with uncountable nouns (also known as non- count or mass nouns), which cannot be separated and counted as individual units or elements. Uncountable nouns cannot take an indefinite article (a/an), nor can they be made plural.