2GA. Nouns Grammar Activities
Jonathon Reinhardt and Dilara Avci
These activities are designed for the content in 2. Nouns. All corpus analysis activities are in 2GA. Corpus Activities for Nouns
⇒ 2.1 Noun or verb?
⇒ 2.1.1 Match the suffix
⇒ 2.1.2 Gerund or participle?
⇒ 2.1.3 Compound nouns and bogus claims
⇒ 2.1.4 Corpus insights into nouns
⇒ 2.2.1 Identify the abstract nouns
⇒ 2.2.2 Proper nouns
⇒ 2.2.3 Singular & plural nouns
⇒ 2.2.4 Count & non-count nouns
⇒ 2.3 Noun phrases
⇒ 2.3.1 Noun phrase functions
⇒ 2.4 Comprehensive activities on nouns
⇒ Return to 2.1 What is a noun?
⇒ Return to 2.1.1 Noun Morphology
⇒ Return to 2.1.2 Gerunds
⇒ Return to 2.1.3 Compound nouns
⇒ Return to 2.2.1 Concrete & abstract nouns
Read the following:
Posts Falsely Claim to Show Hobbs in Arizona Election Tabulation Room by Komel Patel: https://www.factcheck.org/2022/11/posts-falsely-claim-to-show-hobbs-in-arizona-election-tabulation-room/
An image shared on social media shows a woman with glasses and brown hair in an arizona ballot tabulation room. The posts falsely identify the woman as democratic gubernatorial candidate katie hobbs, who is the secretary of state, implying that hobbs was illegally influencing the count. The woman pictured is an election observer, not hobbs.
⇒ Return to 2.2.2 Proper nouns
⇒ Return to 2.2.3 Singular, plural, & collective nouns
⇒ Return to 2.2.4 Count & non-count nouns
⇒ Return to 2.3 Noun phrases
Read the following passage from ‘Never Before Seen Look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unbuilt Capitol Oasis at: https://franklloydwright.org/oasis-state-capitol-quarterly/
It was April 1957. The entire city of Phoenix was embroiled in a battle over the future design of the State Capitol. At the center of the dispute was Wright himself, whose unsolicited proposal dominated conversation and media coverage and divided neighbors and family members for much of the year. For the architect, it was a gift to the people of his adopted home state, but following months of public contention, his visionary plans never made it off the drawing board.
⇒ Return to 2.3.1 Functions of noun phrases
a. Copy a paragraph or snippet of text from a news story, a random Wikipedia entry, or popular book (consider one of these, the most popular downloads at Project Gutenberg) of 50-60 words. Analyze the text and give yourself the following points. Compare with classmates and discuss whose/which texts had the highest and lowest scores.
- 1 point for every noun
- 2 points for every non-count noun and proper noun
- 3 points for every noun phrase
- 4 points for every NP functioning as a subject complement
- 5 points for every NP functioning as an object
- 6 points for every NP functioning as a prepositional complement
b. Come up with new euphemisms for 5 things that are not normally referred to with euphemisms, and ask another person to try to guess what they mean.
⇒ Return to 2. Nouns
Module authors: Jonathon Reinhardt and Dilara Avci
Last updated: 21 November 2023
This module is part of Modern English Grammar and the Power of Language, a open educational resource offered by the Clarify Initiative customized for English 406, a course at the University of Arizona. The Clarify Initiative is a privately funded project with the goal of raising critical language awareness and media literacy among students of language and throughout society.
