Abstract nouns can be formed from common nouns, verbs and objectives. Like action
and acting, child and childhood, good and goodness. Action is a verb, child is a
common noun and good is an adjective.
Write collective nouns to describe the group of following:
Cattle: Herd.
Sailors: Crew
Soldiers: Army
Pupils : Class
Citizens: Nation
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Note the qualities related to following adjectives:
Lazy: Laziness
Cruel: Cruelty
Brave: Bravery
Foolish: Foolishness
Forming abstract nouns from adjectives:
young : Youth
humble : Humility
decent : Decency
cruel : Cruelty
bitter : Bitterness
strong : Strength
true : truth
Forming abstract nouns from verbs:
Laugh:
Laughter
obey:
Obedience
live:
Life
expect:
expectation
excel:
Excellence
know:
Knowledge
steal: Stealth
Forming abstract nouns from common nouns:
King:
Kingship
Man:
Manhood
Thief:
theft
Woman:
womanhood
Bankrupt:
Bankruptcy
Infant:
Infancy
Owner:
ownership
Rogue:
roguery
Lesson plan 14
Theme
:
Negative sentences.
Level: Intermediate
Materials: Blackboard, Projector, laptop, different handouts
Aim: To raise the awareness about
the Course “Practical Grammar”
Time:
80 min
In traditional structural grammar, grammatical categories are semantic distinctions; this
is reflected in a morphological or syntactic paradigm. But in generative grammar, which sees
meaning as separate from grammar, they are categories that define the distribution of syntactic
elements. For structuralists such as Roman Jakobson grammatical categories were lexemes that
were based on binary oppositions of "a single feature of meaning that is equally present in all
contexts of use".
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