the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that you use in some languages when you are talking about who something is done by, what something is done with, or where something comes from
a common noun that refers to a quality, idea, or feeling rather than to a person or a physical object. For example ‘thought', ‘problem', ‘law', and ‘opportunity' are all abstract nouns. 抽象名词
any noun that is not the name of a specific person or thing. For example ‘woman', ‘dog', ‘mountain', and ‘idea' are common nouns, while ‘Sarah', ‘Rover', and ‘Mount Everest' are proper nouns. The two types of common noun are concrete noun and abstract noun. 普通名词
a common noun that refers to anything with a physical reality that you can see or touch. For example ‘hair', ‘bread', ‘rat' and ‘mobile phone' are all concrete nouns. 具体名词
a noun that has singular and plural forms. In the plural, countable nouns usually add an ‘s' or ‘es', for example ‘mistakes', 'problems', and ‘buses'. When it is singular, a countable noun usually comes after a determiner such as ‘a', ‘this', ‘any', or ‘a lot of', for example ‘this house, ‘a week', and ‘the way'.
in active clauses, a type of grammatical object that refers to the person or thing that is directly involved in or affected by the action of the verb, but does not perform the action. In English, the direct object is usually a noun or pronoun, for example in the sentences ‘Drink up your milk', and ‘I loved her', the direct objects are ‘your milk' and ‘her'. 直接宾语
a form of the noun or pronoun in the grammar of some languages, used to show possession. In English, this is shown by adding ‘'s' at the end of the word, for example ‘Sarah's birthday'. 属格;所有格
a type of grammatical object that refers to the person who receives something from or benefits from an action. An indirect object is usually a noun or pronoun. For example in the sentences ‘She taught me a lot about music' and ‘We were given free tickets to the concert', the indirect objects are ‘me' and ‘we'. 间接宾语
a noun such as ‘soap' that is usually uncountable but is also used with ‘a' or ‘an', or in the plural, to talk about different types of something. For example the noun ‘soap' in ‘Wash your hands with soap and water' is uncountable, while in ‘You should choose a mild soap' and ‘Some soaps are very strongly perfumed', ‘soap' is countable. A mass noun is used in both these ways. 物质名词(指通常不可数但可以当成复数使用或与不定代词连用的名词,如soap)
a word or compound that refers to a person, thing, place, or abstract quality. ‘Friend', ‘credit card', ‘California', and ‘peace' are all nouns. 名词;名词词组
a group containing at least one noun or pronoun (the head) and often other items such as determiners, adjectives, and prepositionalphrases. For example, ‘her brilliant novel', 'we both', ‘a large glass of orange juice', and ‘very few people in this area' are all noun groups. A noun group can be the subject, object, or complement in a clause, or the object of a preposition.
[C]an example of a noun that has come from another part of speech, for example ‘ask' in the sentence ‘It's a big ask to play five tough matches in 17 days'
a noun that names a particular person, place, or thing and begins with a capital letter. ‘Jane', ‘Africa', and ‘New Year' are proper nouns. 专有名词(首字母大写的人名、地名或事物名称,如Jane,Africa 和 New Year)
a noun that has no plural form. Uncountable nouns usually refer to abstract things such as ‘advice', ‘luck', and ‘information', or to substances such as ‘milk', ‘blood', and ‘smoke'. 不可数名词