Nouns

If you can put a, an or the in front of a word, it's probably a noun: a phone, an idea, the beach.

Kinds of nouns

Nouns all around you

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• Amma, teacher, Nimalpeople
• dog, elephant, crowanimals
• Galle, school, beachplaces
• bicycle, phone, ricethings
• happiness, love, ideaideas and feelings

Proper nouns and common nouns

• A proper noun is the name of one particular person or place. It always starts with a capital letter: Sri Lanka, Colombo, Malki, Vesak, Monday.
• A common noun is a general word for any one of a group: country, city, girl, festival, day.

In this section

• Noun gender: actor / actress, and why most nouns have no gender.
• Singular and plural: one bus, two buses.
• Countable and uncountable: why it's some advice, not an advice.
• Compound nouns: bus stop, toothbrush, mother-in-law.
• Possessives: Amma's handbag.

Quick check

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1. Which one is a noun?

   happinesshappy

2. My cousin lives in .

   Jaffnajaffna

3. Which one is a noun?

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