PARTS OF

SPEECH
(LANGUAGE ARTS)
K1. WHAT I KNOW?
Enumerate the parts
of speech, and try to
define each. (5 minutes)
1. NOUNS
are most common type of words used in
oral and written communication
a name of a person, animal, place, or
thing, idea, or event
derived from the Latin word nomen
which means ‘name’
 T1. NOUNS (3 minutes)
Identify the nouns in the following sentences.
1. A bird with a worm in its beak was flying in the
sky.
2. An island came about.
3. She snatched a rock and hid it in her bag.
4. A man and a woman stepped out of the
bamboo.
T2. NOUNS (5 minutes)
Write one example of each category of noun.
1. Person - _________ 4. Thing - _________
2. Animal - _________ 5. Idea - _________
3. Place - _________ 6. Event - __________
 TYPE
1. NOUNS (TYPES)
DEFINITION
EXAMPLES
Person Animal Place Thing Idea Event
Common general, unspecific man cat city pen freedom holiday
categories
Proper specific categories Adam Tom Panabo Faber Castell Teachers’ Day
Things that exist physically
Concrete andleast
can be perceived by at
four of the five man cat city pen
senses.
Ethereal; concepts or
Abstract feelings that cannot be freedom holiday
understood concretely or
touched physically
Collective A group of something crowd gaggle bundle
 1. NOUNS (TYPES) EXAMPLES
TYPE DEFINITION
Person Animal Place Thing Idea Event

can occur in both singular and plural forms,

Countable can be modified by numbers, and can occur man cat city pen holiday
with quantifying determiners such as many,
most, more, etc.

also called MASS NOUNS;

Un- nouns that are not countable; milk freedom
countable include powder, liquid, air, and most
abstract nouns
 1. NOUNS (TYPES)
EXAMPLES
DEFINITION
TYPE
Person Animal Place Thing Idea Event

demonstrate ownership man‘s cat‘s

Possessive over something else; Panabo’s Juicy’s freedom‘s holiday‘s
spotted with an apostrophe men‘s cats'

Contains two or more words that join together to make a single noun;
Compound It can be written as: closed form such as softball and toothpaste, hyphenated form such as six-pack and son-in-
law, or open form such as post office and upper class.
 T3. NOUNS (5 minutes)
DIRECTION: Copy the table or insert objects and texts in the picture. Tick the
column/s according to the type/s of each listed noun in the first column. Then,
complete the other columns with corresponding nouns related to the given noun. You
may skip a column whenever inapplicable. Use the proper noun for the singular
possessive type, and the common noun for the plural possessive. If proper noun
column is inapplicable, use the given noun for both singular and plural possessive. Do
as shown below.
TYPES
NOUNS Singular Plural
Common Proper Concrete Abstract Collective Countable Uncountable
Possessive Possessive
milk √ Nido √ √ Nido’s
flock bird Birdie √ √ √ Birdie’s birds’
beauty √ √ beauty’s beauties’
 T3. NOUNS (30 minutes) TYPES
NOUNS Singular Plural
Common Proper Concrete Abstract Collective Countable Uncountable
Possessive Possessive
coffee
faculty
flower
nation
platoon
dignity
student
council
player
trouble
1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
1. Singular – refers to one item
2. Plural – refers to more than one
item
*Countable nouns have both singular and plural forms
*Uncountable/ Mass nouns do not normally have a
plural form.
1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*The regular plural ending of an
English noun is -s.
*cat – cats
*boy – boys
*pen – pens
1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*These are the exceptions to the normal pattern:
Singular Noun Ending Plural Noun Ending
-s, -ss, -ch, -x, -zz -es
focus focuses
princess princesses
church churches
box boxes
Buzz buzzes
1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*These are the exceptions to the normal pattern:
Singular Noun Ending Plural Noun Ending

-o -s or -es

tomato tomatoes

piano pianos

potato potatoes
1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*These are the exceptions to the normal pattern:
Singular Noun Ending Plural Noun Ending
consonant + y -ies
baby babies
hobby hobbies
vowel + y -s
key keys
ray rays
1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*These are the exceptions to the normal pattern:
Singular Noun Ending Plural Noun Ending

-f -s or -ves
hoof hoofs / hooves
dwarf Dwarfs / dwarves
thief thieves
roof roofs
1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*These are the exceptions to the normal pattern:
Singular Noun Ending Plural Noun Ending

-fe -ves

knife knives

life lives
1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*Some nouns have two plural forms.
*fish – fish / fishes
*Some of them have the same form in
the singular and plural.
*a sheep – ten sheep
*a deer – seven deer
1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*A few change a vowel to form plural.
*man – men
*tooth– teeth
*Some nouns form plural with -en.
*ox – oxen
1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*Compound nouns normally form the plural by
adding –s to the last word of the compound
*Indian take-away – Indian take-aways
*A compound noun formed from a noun and an
adverb makes the first word plural.
*a passer-by – several passers-by
 1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*Compound nouns with woman as the first word
make both words plural.
*A woman doctor – several women doctors
*A compound word which ends in –ful normally
ends with –s after –ful, but there is an alternative
form with the –s following the base noun.
*a cupful – three cupfuls/ cupsful
 1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*Some nouns referring to clothes and tools where two
equal parts are joined together, e.g. trousers, binoculars,
and tongs, are treated as being plural and are followed
by a verb in the plural.
*My shorts are dirty.
*To talk about one of these items, we can use the
expression, a pair of…
*John bought a pair of jeans.
 1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*To talk about more than one of these items, we can use
pairs of.
*Martina bought five pairs of tights.
*To talk about one of these items, we can use the
expression, a pair of…
*John bought a pair of jeans.
 1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*FOREIGN PLURAL: Nouns that have come into English
from foreign language can:
a. Keep the plural form of the language they come from
*axis – axes *crisis – crises
b. Have plurals formed according to the rules for plural
in English
*thesaurus *thesauruses
 1. NOUNS (NUMBER)
*FOREIGN PLURAL: Nouns that have come into English
from foreign language can:
c. Have two plurals: one from the foreign language and
the other formed according to the plural formation
in English.
*index – indexes / indices
*formula – formulas / formulae
 DIRECTION:
Write the following nouns in plural form.
1. bus 7. hero 13. clay 19. wife 25. looker-on
2. grass 8. echo 14. bay 20. Strife 26. woman driver
3. beach 9. lily 15. Sky 21. foot 27. agendum
4. tax 10. body 16. Loaf 22. child 28. curriculum
5. Quiz 11. hoody 17. Leaf 23. Bystander 29. stimulus
6. photo 12. lobby 18. belief 24. break-up 30. radius