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related to the shape of things ③ Paritives related to volume ④ Paritives related to the state of action ⑤ Partitives denoting pairs, groups, flocks, etc General partitives ? 這類單位詞包括 piece, bit, item, article, 它們的搭配能力很強(qiáng)。 more of a fool (= more foolish)。 music – songs。 Some abstract noncount nouns have semantically related individual nouns as their countable equivalents: laughter – laughs。 worry – worries。 lamb – lambs。 coffee – coffees。Lecture 4 Noun and Noun Phrase Classification of Nouns Number Forms of Nouns (名詞的數(shù) ) Unit Noun (Partitive) (單位名詞 ) Function of Noun Phrases Classification of Nouns Word formation Lexical meaning Grammatical form Simple nouns Compound nouns Derivative nouns Common nouns Proper nouns Countable nouns Uncountable nouns ? Simple nouns: a noun that contains only one free morpheme. man, chair, land, ship, water, gas, faith… ? Compound nouns: a noun that is posed of two or more morphemes. armchair, farmland, seaside, fetmenot… ? Derivative nouns: a noun that es from a verb, an adjective or a simple noun with affix. arrangement, greatness, ability, expectation… P41 Common Noun 個(gè)體名詞 Individual Noun (boy, house, tiger, insect) 集體名詞 Collective Noun (family, team, cattle, police) 物質(zhì)名詞 Material Noun (air, snow, bread, rice) 抽象名詞 Abstract Noun (glory, honesty, failure, education) Proper Noun A proper noun is a name used for a particular person, place or thing, and spelt with a capital initial letter. Anderson, China, San Francisco, British Airways, National People’s Congress, the Democratic Party, The New York Times, the State Council, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the 12th FiveYear Plan Count and noncount nouns A count noun (or countable noun) is a noun that has a plural and which can collocate with numbers and with such determiners as a(n), many, few, these, those, several, etc. A noncount noun (or uncountable noun) is a noun that cannot go with the abovementioned words. Function of noun phrases The