Learning Nouns ( Collective & Uncountable Nouns) - Basic English Grammar Lessons

Learning Nouns ( Collective & Uncountable Nouns) - Basic English Grammar Lessons

In this Basic English grammar lesson, Emmelda teaches you nouns and very specifically collective nouns and uncountable nouns which many English learners and even the native speakers often get confused with.

Nouns: are names given to people, places animals or things.

Example: John lives in the UK with his dog called snoopy who loves to play with his ball.
John is a name of a person, UK is a name of a place, a dog is an animal and ball is a thing.
A proper noun is a name of a person, place or an organization. All proper nouns begin with a capital letter.

Pronoun: is a word that replaces a noun.
Example: ‘He’ replaces John.

Collective nouns: are words given to a group of people, animals or things.

Example: for a group of people in an organization, we say ‘team’. The team is efficient. (not ‘are’)
Example: class of students
Example: Family (consists of more than 2 members)
Remember, when you use a collective noun, use a singular verb and not a plural verb.
Example: Police is followed by a singular verb ‘is’.

For animals:

Example: A herd of zebras is moving away to escape the lion’s angry roar.
Example: An army of frogs, school of fish,

For things:

Example: A bunch of grapes, a clutch of eggs, a dozen of eggs, a deck of cards, a fleet of ship/ planes.

Uncountable nouns: are nouns that you can’t count, like liquids. You can’t count water as 1 water, 2 water. Other uncountable nouns are advice, information, intelligence, garbage.

[engin]

I loved it .Thank you for your goodwill and effort !

[mulukenshiferaw]

thank you for your very nice lesson and teacher!!

[marcoantonioidelfonsiomedi]

Hi my favorite teacher. thanks for making every lesson so funny. And yes, you look great :)

[maurabegg]

When you started talking about the collective nouns, you said "a team of employees are working...". Later, you said we must use a singular I believe the correct rule is that in British English "are" is used for many collective nouns, and "is" is used in American English.

[abdiaziz]

In the beginning of the lesson u said "The UK" rather than the united kingdom, so is it grammatically correcty? because my English teacher used to say that it is not right to use THE with words like; USA, UK, UAE etc. thanks

[geetamehto]

If more than one group then what will we use are or is.

[RAJIVCHAITANYA]

Madam, may you tell me that 'team' might be pluralized putting 'S' ?
1. Two team
2. Two teams
(Madam, which one is correct)

[sharonwilliamswilliams]

I thought that the word police was considered a plural noun and used a plural verb; also, I thought that the singular form for police is a police officer, policewoman, or policeman. Please explain why this is wrong.

[francisnghaling]

Please can you tell me why s in liquids and not in others?

[AnjaliSingh-hyob]

Mam pls make a video on abstract noun mam pls plz

[dkr]

were you a nurse ? is this sentence correct. help me

[LocalScenery]

Ma'm, may I go out because it's time for my favorite subject, snack!

[zdguzev]

Why did you start dog, ball and bat with a capital letter?

[hmk]

i dont know why i feel this lady is smiling in all clips

[mariamari]

It is nice lesson but the writting is not clear.

[uyentruong]

i don't think we should call our pets are "it". I always call them are "he" or "she"