{"id":9821,"date":"2022-05-18T09:09:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elblogdeidiomas.es\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2022-06-24T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T10:32:47","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-english-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elblogdeidiomas.es\/en\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-english-names\/","title":{"rendered":"EVERYTHING you need to know about English names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A noun in English <strong>is a word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea.\u00a0<\/strong>In a sentence, nouns can play the role of subject, direct object, indirect object, subject complement, object complement, appositive, or adjective.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 2rem; background: #F4F4F4;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #fff; background: #FF6868;\">\u00cdNDICE DE CONTENIDOS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#of\">Classes of names<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#plural\">The plural of nouns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#gender\">The gender<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#case\">The Possessive Case (The Saxon Genitive)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nouns take many different shapes and sizes.\u00a0<strong>The main ones are common nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, and collective nouns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"of\">Classes of names<\/h2>\n<p>1. Common: boy, pencil, computer (ni\u00f1o, l\u00e1piz, computadora).<\/p>\n<p>2. Own: Albert, Fernando Z\u00f3bel, London (Albert, Fernando Z\u00f3bel, Londres).<\/p>\n<p>3. Abstracts: Charity, beauty (caridad, belleza).<\/p>\n<p>4. Collectives: Team, swarm (equipo, enjambre).<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"plural\">The plural of nouns<\/h2>\n<p>Most singular nouns are made\u00a0<strong>plural by simply putting an -s at the end<\/strong>.\u00a0There are many different rules regarding pluralization depending on the letter a noun ends in.\u00a0Irregular nouns do not follow the rules of the plural noun, so they must be memorized or looked up in the dictionary.<\/p>\n<h3>Rules of the plural noun<\/h3>\n<p>There are many rules for plural nouns, and because we use nouns so often when writing, it is important to know all of them.\u00a0The correct <strong>spelling of plurals<\/strong> generally depends on which letter the singular noun ends with.<\/p>\n<h3>General norm<\/h3>\n<p>The general rule for forming the plural of nouns in English is to add -S- to them.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<p>Boy-boys, book-books, window-windows.<br \/>\n(chico-chicos, libro-libros, ventana-ventanas).<\/p>\n<p>We could say that\u00a0<strong>eight out of ten nouns in English form the plural in this way<\/strong>, however, we have to take into account the exceptions.<\/p>\n<h3>Exceptions to the general rule<\/h3>\n<p>A) <strong>Names ending in SH, CH, SS, S, X, ZZ<\/strong>\u00a0form, with few exceptions, the plural by adding\u00a0<strong>-ES.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dish-dishes, church-churches, class-classes, bus-buses, box-boxes, buzz-buzzes.<br \/>\n(plato-platos, iglesia-iglesias, clase-aulas, autob\u00fas-autobuses, caja-cajas, zumbidos).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phonetics: these plurals are pronounced \/ iz \/<\/p>\n<p>B) Those nouns ending in -F, either spelling or phonetic (loaf, wife), form the plural, with few exceptions,\u00a0<strong>substituting -F- for -VES.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wife-wives, loaf-loaves <em>.<br \/>\n(Esposa-esposas, hogazas).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>C)\u00a0 Names ending in -Y preceded by a consonant, form the plural by substituting <strong>-Y- for -IES.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lady ladies, city-cities.<br \/>\nDama-damas, ciudad-ciudades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Plurals of Saxon origin<\/h3>\n<p>These plurals\u00a0<strong>are irregular and come from the old Anglo-Saxon<\/strong>\u00a0and are, among others, the following:<\/p>\n<p>Man-men, woman-women, child-children, ox-oxen (ox).<br \/>\n(Hombre-hombres, mujer-mujeres, ni\u00f1o-ni\u00f1os, bueyes-bueyes).<\/p>\n<h3>Irregular plurals<\/h3>\n<p>They are, among others, foot-feet, goose-geese, tooth-teeth, louse-lice, mouse-mice, etc (pies-pies, gansos-gansos, dientes-dientes, piojos-piojos, ratones-ratones).<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"gender\">The gender<\/h2>\n<p>Gender in English can be\u00a0<strong>formed in three different ways and poses much less problems than in Spanish<\/strong> since in this language we must know the gender of adjectives and nouns, while in English we deduce it from the context.\u00a0For example: In Spanish, we say \u201cLa chica es lista\u201d (la = feminine article, girl and list we know that it is feminine by the a).<\/p>\n<p>In English this problem does not exist since when we say &#8220;The girl is clever&#8221; we imagine the gender of the words by the context: when we put &#8220;girl&#8221;, we will know that &#8220;the&#8221; is the and not the and that &#8220;clever&#8221; is ready and not ready.<\/p>\n<h3>Ways to express gender in English<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>By using the\u00a0<strong>suffix -RES<\/strong> to form the feminine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actor-actress, lion-lioness, waiter-waitress<em>.<br \/>\n<\/em>(Actor-actriz, camarero-camarera, leona-leona).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In other nouns, gender <strong>is determined by the word itself,<\/strong> which is different for masculine and feminine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Man-woman, husband-wife, brother-sister, and boy-girl).<br \/>\n(Hombre-mujer, marido-mujer, hermano-hermana, chico-chica.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are other nouns that\u00a0<strong>do not have a<\/strong>\u00a0clear gender\u00a0<strong>distinctive<\/strong>\u00a0and will be masculine, feminine or neutral depending on the context:\u00a0painter (pintor\/a), writer (escritor\/a), teacher (profesor\/a).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"case\">The Possessive Case (The Saxon Genitive)<\/h2>\n<p>What is it? The Saxon genitive or &#8220;Possessive case &#8221; which is how it is often called in grammar, is a shortened way of expressing the possessor of something and what it possesses.\u00a0It is, in short, a common tendency in language to save words.<\/p>\n<h3>Training<\/h3>\n<p>In order to use the Saxon genitive we\u00a0<strong>need a, let&#8217;s call him, possessor<\/strong> (Juan, my father, his uncle) Juan, my father, his uncle, and something that is owned or belongs to him in a certain way. It is formed by placing first the owner plus an\u00a0<strong>apostrophe<\/strong>\u00a0and the thing that is owned.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The bike of my son (incorrect).<\/li>\n<li>My son&#8217;s bike (correct).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the holder is plural\u00a0<strong>ending in -s,<\/strong>\u00a0only the apostrophe (without -s) is placed.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The toy of the boys (incorrect).<\/li>\n<li>The boys\u00b4 toy (correct).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Compound names are considered simple.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My father-in-law&#8217;s house.<br \/>\n(My father-in-law&#8217;s house).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When\u00a0<strong>there are two owners, only the apostrophe and the -s are placed<\/strong>\u00a0in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Romeo and Juliet\u00b4s love.<br \/>\nThe love of Romeo and Juliet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Important note<\/h4>\n<p>The Saxon genitive must necessarily be used when the sentence meets the conditions for them, that is <strong>when there is a person or animal that owns something<\/strong>. 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