Saturday 20 October 2012

NouN PArT 2

assalamualaikum w.b.t :-)
NOUN PART 2
thank a lot for spending your precious time visiting my blog. for this week. i am going to proceed with the description of NOUN.
during lecture, i was exposed to another branches of noun. they are, countable and uncountable noun.
dr. Kemboja did explain during lecture all about countable noun(count noun) and uncountable noun(uncount noun).
so, how can we differentiate between countable and uncountable noun?

UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
uncountable noun is neither one, singular or plural.
e.g : ships (i can see ships in distance)
  • cannot use a/an
  • do not use numbers with an uncountable noun
  • not three foods.

water is neither singular nor plural, therefore, we can use 
 -some water, water.
-much coffee
-few sandwiches
-abstract noun (fun, sleep, thirst)
COUNTABLE NOUNS
countable nouns can be singular or plural
e.g:  do you like these photos? (photos are singular, however we can count them)
        i have a sister ( a refers to one person, thus it is countable)
  • a/an or one goes only for singular noun

apart from that, there are also nouns that can count and uncount. to be honest, i have never realise it before. or maybe it is my lack knowledge, well who knows. i have prepared some examples of nouns that can be countable and uncountable .

NOUNS THAT CAN BE COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE
  • a potato or potato?
a potato/potatoes- countable


potato - countable (mashed potato)

  • a sport or sport ?
* rugby is a sport - countable
*do you like sport? - uncountable


well, that's all from lecture (noun 2), check out what was the interesting activity during tutoriar...

make your own recipe,make sure in your cooking recipe, you must include nouns..so what are they?



  tadaa...  bringing the sensation of real chocolate cake.!!

ingredients
  • a small cup of cocoa powder
  • a cup of sugar
  • 2 chicken eggs ( you can use duck eggs also =) )
  • a cup of wheat flour
  • a cup of condensed milk ( better check it's expiry date first ok? )
  • a cup of water
  • a cup of cooking oil
  • baking powder ( about a spoon)
methods :

firstly, whisk the eggs and sugar in a bowl...keep whisking until they mix together ( fluffy). 
after that, pour a cup of water, followed by a cup of condensed milk.  next, you can put the wheat flour into the bowl and put some baking powder and not to mention the cocoa powder. you can put them as much as you want to.  next,you can put the mixture in steamer. wait about 15 minutes before it is ready.

what a very interesting way to strengthen my memory right?..credit to madam noraza. thank you very much madam.. 







Monday 1 October 2012

week 3 - NOUN AND DETERMINERS

  assalamualaikum wbt. thank you for my blog, you will enjoy reading my own post. for the week three learning course, my class (tesl) is supposed to learn noun and determiners. during lecture, I was exposed to noun but in detail. where noun comes from? my foundation english's lecturer told us that noun derives from the Latin nomen, meaning 'name' referto place, person, thing, and event. apart from that, I also learnt about the countable nouns,singular nouns,collective nouns,  abstract nouns and genitive nouns.
  As for the countable noun, it is usually singular/plural form that you can count (count nouns). It is usually indefinite article ('a' or 'an').Moreover, abstract noun is a noun that you cannot sense, see, hear and touch. Collective noun, on the other hand, is a noun that is used to refer to groups of people, animals.
  In conclusion, noun can be explained based on 4 terms : common, proper, collective, and abstract. I am looking forward to learn more things throughout this semester.