2.3 Nouns 名詞

Day 1: Proper Nouns, Collective Nouns and Common Nouns (專有名詞，集合名詞， 普通名詞)

What is a noun? 甚麼是名詞?

A noun is the name given to a ‘thing’. A ‘things’ may be a person, a place,

       an animal, an object, a feeling or a situation, e.g. Peter, Hong Kong , tiger, happiness, dilemma.

        名詞是一些東西的名字。那些東西可以是人、地方、物件、感覺或狀況。

What are Proper Nouns? 甚麼是專有名詞?

Proper Nouns are nouns that refer to names of people and places,

        e.g. John, Shatin, Shatin Secondary School .

        專有名詞是人物或地方的名字。

The first letter of a proper noun is always capitalized, no matter which

        part of the sentence it is in.

        不論最句中的那一部份，專有名詞中的第一個英文字母必須要大寫。

Other proper nouns include: 其他專有名詞

1.       Titles used with the names of people (職稱、稱謂)

e.g. Dr. Smith, Miss Chan.

2.     Months, days, holidays (月份、星期、節日)

e.g. April, Saturday, Chinese New Year

3.     The names of courses/subjects (科目或課程的名稱)

e.g. History, Chemistry, Music

4.     The names of Languages and nationalities (語言、國籍)

e.g. Chinese, Spanish, Italian

5.     The names of religions (宗教)

e.g. Buddhism, Christianity, Islam

What are Collective Nouns? 甚麼是集合名詞?

Collective Nouns refer to groups, e.g. money, furniture, population, herd, flock.

        集合名詞所代表的是種類或集體的東西 

We can add ‘the’ in front of an adjective to make it into a collective noun,

        e.g. the rich, the young, the poor, etc.

        我們可以在形容詞前加上’the’，使它成為集合名詞。

What are common nouns? 甚麼是普通名詞?

We call nouns other than proper nouns common nouns. The first letter of

        a common noun is not capitalized unless it is at the beginning of a sentence.

        除專有名詞外，所有的名詞都是普通名詞。除非普通名詞最句首，否則，普通名詞的第一個字母是不用大寫的。

        e.g. Happiness is important to me.

               We all like happiness.

Common nouns can be further divided into countable nouns and uncountable nouns. Countable nouns have singular forms and plural forms. We will discuss nouns further in the coming days.

         普通名詞可再被細分為’可數名詞’和’不可數名詞’。而可數名詞是有單數和複數的不同型態的。
       在未來數天，我們會進一步探討這些不同種類的名詞。