Unit 2 Nouns Countable Nouns Uncountable Nouns 1

Unit 2 Nouns

Countable Nouns & Uncountable Nouns 1 2 Plural Forms of Noun 3 Compound Nouns 4 Unit Nouns 5 Genitive Nouns

常见的不可数名词 1. Fluids: air, smoke, steam, vapor, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, exhaust, smog, water, oil, soup, juice, ink, rain, ice, hail, snow, tea, coffee, wine

常见的不可数名词 2. particles: sugar, salt, rice, corn, cotton, grass, hair, powder, flour, sand, dust, dirt, garbage, waste, fertilizer 3. Natural phenomenon: light, sunshine, lightening, thunder, electricity, energy, power, weather, darkness, heat

常见的不可数名词 4. Intangibles: news, information, evidence, intelligence, progress, knowledge, ignorance, advice, population, pollution, percent, research, work, homework, room( 空间), space, time, permission, behavior, harm, luck, nonsense, music, time

常见的不可数名词 5. Tangibles: furniture, luggage, baggage, clothing, mail, equipment, traffic, poetry, machinery, jewelry, weaponry, personnel, scenery, merchandise, money, cash, change, company, garbage, paper, produce, sweat

a. 抽象名词具体化（more examples) P 15 The judge described him as a danger to society. (抽象名词→个体名词) The patient is now out of danger. Seeing him again was a real pleasure for me. (抽象名词→个体名词) The old man takes pleasure in playing with children. 以…为乐，从…中得到乐趣

c. 集体名词具体化 1) He played an honest youth in the film. 2) The youth of today are / is mostly diligent and eager to learn. 3) I usually went there in my youth.

可数名词转换为不可数名词 1) 蔬菜、动物本身可数，指餐桌上食品时不可数 carrot, lamb, chicken 等 P 15 There are several chickens in the yard. Do you like chicken or fish?

单复数意义不同的名词 单数 Advice 忠告 Air 空气 Arm 胳膊 Ash 灰烬 Authority 权威 Brain 大脑 Cloth 布 Content 内容 Condition 情况 Custom 风俗 复数 Advices 通知 Airs 摆架子 Arms 武器 Ashes 骨灰 Authorities 当局 Brains 思想 Clothes 衣服 Contents 目录 Conditions 环境 Customs 海关

单复数意义不同的名词 单数 Damage 损害 Effect 效果 Emotion 情感 Force 武力 Good 好处 Green 绿色 Heaven 天堂 Iron 铁 Letter 字母 复数 Damages 赔偿费 Effects 财物 Emotions 情绪 Forces 军队 Goods 货物 Greens 青菜 Heavens 天空 Irons 脚镣手铐 Letters 文学

单复数意义不同的名词 单数 Look 神色 Manner 方式 Pain 疼痛 Paper 纸张 Part 部分 Property 财产 Quarter 四分之一 Regard 尊重 Ruin 毁灭 复数 Looks 外貌 Manners 礼貌 Pains 努力 Papers 文件、证件 Parts 才能 Properties 性能 Quarters 住处 Regards 问候 Ruins 废墟

单复数意义不同的名词 单数 Sand 沙 Sense 常识 Spectacle 景象 Spirit 精神 Step 脚步 Water 水 Wit 机智 Wood 木材 复数 Sands 沙滩 Senses 感觉 Spectacles 眼镜 Spirits 情绪 Steps 台阶 Waters 河水水域 Wits 理智 Woods 森林

n n n n 2. 3复合名词 (Compound Nouns): 复合名词又称合成名词 1) 构成: a. 合成一个词: flyover(立交桥), overpass(天桥), classmate, faultfinding（找茬，挑剔）, showdown(摊牌) b. 用-: tug-of-war(拔河), voice-over(旁白) go-between c. 分开写: flower shop, police station

n n n 2)复数形式: a. 主体名词在句末: story-teller(s) b. 由man或woman作为第一部分的复数名词， 两个组成部分皆变为复数形式。如：man driver →men drivers， woman doctor → women doctors等。 注意： boy students, girl students, lady friends

n n n c. 以动词、过去分词+副词: go-between(s), grown-up(s), close-up(s), stand -by(s) d. 动名词+名词 dining rooms, swimming pools P 21 Ex. 6 (A) e. 可数名词+介词（短语）+可数名词、副词、 形容词 commanders-in-chief, sons-in-law

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) 1. 一般表示个数的单位词 (搭配能力强) 2. piece, bit, item一则, 一条，一件, article一件物 品或（商品） 3. a piece of advice / armor / bacon / bread / cake / chalk / cloth / coal / evidence / folly / furniture / ice / information / land / meat/ music / news / paper / research / sugar / work

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) a bit of advice / bread / grass / news / trouble / wood an item of news an item of value 一件值钱的物品 an item of business 营业项目

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) an article of furniture an article of clothes an article of faith 一个信条

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) 2. 表示形状的单位词（搭配能力受限）： a cake of soap a bar of chocolate a drop of water an ear of corn a flight of stairs a grain of sand ten head of cattle / cabbage

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) a bundle of firewood 一捆 a loaf of bread a lump of sugar a spiral of incense 一圈圈的烟雾 a slice of meat

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) flight 排列有序的一段/一溜/队 例：a flight of stairs/steps/arrows箭 speck 斑点状大小 例：a speck of ink/dirt stick 细长如短棍状 例：a stick of chalk/candle

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) bucket/ pail常指有提手的小提桶的量 例：a bucket （pail）of water/sand bowl 一碗所盛的量 例：a bowl of rice/soup spoonful 一勺所盛的量 例: a spoonful of hot water handful. 一把；一小撮 例: a handful of clay（泥土）

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) jar 常指陶制的坛子或罐子 例：a jar of strawberry jam truckload/trainload /lorryload一卡车或一火 车所装载的量 例：a trainload of goods/coal

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) roll 常指滚滚的大的声音 例：a roll of thunder display展现，展示 例： a display of courage / force / power/ skill / fireworks

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) cluster 一簇/团 指丛生的植物或密密匝匝 在一起的群 例：a cluster of flowers/bees/islands packet 一小包的量 例：a packet of cigarettes series 相关的事物组成的一个系列 例：a series of films/lectures tuft 一绺/撮，常指从同一底部而生的物 例：a tuft of hair/grass/feathers

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) bunch 一伙干坏事的人 例： a bunch of rascals gang 一帮/伙犯罪团伙 例： a gang of thieves batch 指一批加入的成员 例：a batch of recruits

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) bench 常指一条长椅坐满的人的数 例：a bench of examiners/judges board 常指会议或委员会全班人马或全体 委员 例： a board of directors choir 常指合唱团或唱诗班 例： a choir of singers

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) congregation 常指定期的宗教性质的集会 例： a congregation of prayers crew 常指在一条船上或同一飞机上的 作 人员 例： a crew of sailors crowd 常指拥挤的人群 例：a crowd of people mob 常指混乱无秩序的暴动的人群 例：a mob of demonstrators

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) pack 一伙（贬义） 例： a pack of thieves party 指出席晚会的所有来宾 例： a party of guests staff 常指一个单位所有的员 例： a staff of teachers

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) team 常指参赛的团队 例：a team of players troop 常指行军中的队伍 例：a troop of soldiers troupe 常指演出的班子，团队，尤指芭蕾 舞团，马戏团 例： a troupe of actors/dancers

2. 4 单位词(Unit Noun) pack 野兽的群体 例： a pack of wolves shoal/school 尤指鱼群 例：a shoal/school of fish field 遍地的分散的群 例：a field of cattle

n n n b. 以-s 或 -es 结尾的复数名词的所有格只在名词 后加 “ ’ ”。 the Workers’ struggle n n 人的斗争 There are many students’ exercise books here.

n n e. 表示店铺、医院、诊所、住宅等名称时，常在名 n 词后加上's代表全称。如： at the doctor’s = at the doctor’s office在诊所 n The home is not mine, but Li Hua’s. I had my hair cut in the barber’s.

n n h. 在one及one / body和some，any，no，every 结合起来的复合词后。如：someone’s book. 这 些代词和else连用，’s应加在else后。如： somebody else’s pencil

n n 3) –s属格的作用 表示时间、距离、度量及金钱、国家、城市等 的名词，虽是无生命的，也可以在词尾后加’s或 ’以构成所有格。如：today’s news，ten minutes’ drive，China’s industry等。 China’s modernization plan A two weeks’ holiday A dollar’s worth of apples the plane’s engines the car’s exhaust

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The beggar always asks for a ( ) of bread and a glass of beer. A. section B. column C. loaf D. part 2. The policeman is investigating the ( ) about the traffic accident. A. passer-by B. passers-by C. passer-bys D. passers-bys 1.

4. He went to Australia hoping to find a teaching ( ) A. work B. career C. post D. employment

5. Yesterday my aunt brought some new ( ) for her flat at the seaside. A. furniture B. furnitures C. possession D. possessions 6. Things went well for her during her early life but in her middle age ( ) seemed to change. A. affair B. luck C. event D. chance

7. The statistics ( ) that living standards in the area have improved dramatically in recent years. A. proves B. is proving C. are proving D. prove statistics: 统计学---单数 数据，统计结果---复数