Unmarked plural nouns in English and their difficulties for the 1 st year students at the Faculty of Tourism, Hanoi University of Culture

Tóm tắt Unmarked plural nouns in English and their difficulties for the 1 st year students at the Faculty of Tourism, Hanoi University of Culture: ...ctions: (1) definition of English nouns, (2) classification of English nouns, and (3) grammatical categories of English nouns. 1.1. Definition of English nouns In Gerald’s view (2001), nouns denote both concrete objects and abstract entities. Tran (2008:15) defines a noun as ‘a word used t...s 2.2.2.1. Definition Unmarked plural nouns can be understood as nouns that have no plural endings (-s ending,-en ending). They also have no voicing, no vowel changes or no rules to change into plural like foreign nouns. In other words, unmarked plural nouns are nouns that cannot be realiz... a collection of individuals to make the right concord between subject and verb. CHAPTER 4- SOME SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS Based on the results obtained from the study, herein after are some solutions suggested by the researcher, with a hope to partly overcome the difficulties of unmarked plural n...