a word that refers to a person, (such as Ann or doctor), a place (such as Paris or city) or a thing, a quality or an activity (such as plant, joy or tennis)名词- ‘Car’ is a concrete noun.car 是具体名词。
- Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.专有名词以大写字母开头。
see also abstract noun, agent noun, collective noun, common noun, count noun, mass noun, proper noun, uncount nounExtra Examples- ‘Flock’ is a collective noun.flock 是集合名词。
- ‘Happiness’ is an abstract noun.happiness 是抽象名词。
- ‘Sheep’ is both a singular and a plural noun.sheep （绵羊）一词单复数同形。
- English nouns are not usually inflected.英语名词通常没有屈折变化。
- Most English plural nouns end in an ‘s’.英语中大多数的复数名词以s 结尾。
- Most feminine nouns in Polish end in the letter ‘a’.波兰语中的大多数阴性名词以字母a 结尾。
- The noun is followed by an intransitive verb.这个名词后接不及物动词。
- a prepositional phrase qualifying a noun修饰名词的介词短语
- an adjective preceding the noun置于名词前的形容词
Topics Languagea1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + nounnoun + verb- end in something
- follow something
- precede something
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noun + nounSee full entry Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin nomen ‘name’.