English Grammar Course | Introduction to Nouns #1
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Hello, everybody.
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Welcome to this English course.
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In today's video, I'm going to tell you about nouns.
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Because in English, nouns are very important.
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They are the basic element of a sentence.
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So if you want to speak English,
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you need to know about the different kinds of nouns.
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And I'm going to try and teach you as well as I can.
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Let's get started!
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Ok, so let's start with concrete nouns.
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Now in English, concrete nouns are people places or things,
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including animals.
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That you can see, that you can smell,
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or taste, or hear, or touch.
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So you can basically use your five senses.
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Let me give you a few examples.
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If we talk about people,
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you could say, a man
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or a teacher,
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or me, Fanny.
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Or Mr. Smith.
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If we talk about places,
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you could say,
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a house, a school.
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You could name a city like London.
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Very nice city.
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Or a beach.
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And if you talk about things,
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you could say a shoe,
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you could say a marker,
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you
could talk about a dog
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or food like a pizza.
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These are concrete nouns....ok.
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Now let's move on to abstract nouns.
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So abstract nouns, unlike concrete nouns,
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are ideas, concepts, emotions.
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And you can't see an idea.
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You can't smell a concept.
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You can't taste an emotion.
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Or hear it. Or touch it.
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So they are nouns. They are things that exist, but
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you cannot see them, or taste them.
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You can't use your five sense.
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To give you a few examples,
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we could talk about love,
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or time,
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or religion,
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rules.
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These are all words that represent
ideas, concepts... okay
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They're abstract nouns in English.
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Now, let's get into more detail about nouns.
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Let's now see the difference between common nouns
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and proper nouns which are very important in English.
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So common nouns and proper nouns
refer to people, places, things, ideas.
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Let's see a few examples.
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We could talk about people for example.
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A woman.
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That's a common noun.
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But if we talk about a specific woman,
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for example, me, Fanny.
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That becomes a proper noun with a capital 'F'.
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because, and you should know this,
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proper nouns are always capitalized.
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You could talk about places.
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A city. That's a common noun.
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But then you can name a specific city.
Let's take a
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great city, London, of course.
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With a capital 'L'.
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Remember proper nouns - always capitalized.
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We can talk about things for
example. An animal.
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Let's take a dog. A dog.
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That's a common noun.
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But if we take a specific dog, like Snoopy - capital 'S',
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that's the proper noun.
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If we talk about things again, but for example, a car,
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that's a common noun.
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But if we name the brand, the specific brand of the car like Volvo,
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that's a proper noun. And it takes a capital 'V'.
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And finally, and we can say, a team - common noun.
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But if we name a specific team, for example,
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the best football team, Manchester United,
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then that's a proper noun
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and it's capitalized.
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Now mind you,
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'team', is a special word because it's called
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a collective noun in English
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because it refers to a group of people.
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So collective nouns can be used as
singular nouns or plural nouns.
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But we will talk about this again later.
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So now that we know a lot about nouns in English,
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Let's practice finding nouns in a sentence.
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Okay, first,
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In my class at Oxford University, I have many friends.
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My best friend is Jan.
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I have a lot of love for her.
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Jan has a cute dog.
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Its name is Juju.
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What are the nouns in these sentences?
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If we take the first sentence,
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In my class at Oxford University, I have many friends.
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We have, class, and friends.
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These are common nouns.
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We also have a proper noun, Oxford
University.
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We know it's a proper noun because it's capitalized.
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The second sentence is,
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My best friend is Jen.
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Now in this sentence,
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the noun is, friend - common noun.
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And there's also the word, Jen,
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is also a noun but a proper noun.
As you can see it's capitalized.
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Then, I have a lot of love for her.
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What noun can you see?
Of course, 'love'.
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Remember the abstract noun
we talked about a few minutes ago.
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And finally, Jan has a cute dog. Its name is Juju.
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What nouns can we find?
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We can see, 'Jen', again - proper noun.
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'Dog' - common noun.
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But also, 'name', and 'Juju'.
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'Name's' a common noun.
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'Juju' is the proper noun.
It's capitalized.
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As you probably know,
I haven't mentioned, 'I', or 'her', or 'its'.
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They are also nouns, but they are pronouns and
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they're considered a different category in English.
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We will talk about them in another video .
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Great job guys!
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Thank you for watching my video.
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I hope you now have a better
understanding of nouns in English.
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Please keep practicing.
Practice makes perfect.
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I'm sure you will very soon be able to
recognize nouns in a sentence.
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Please make sure to watch my next video as I keep on talking about nouns.
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