Structural and semantic Characteristics of Nouns

The noun is a word expressing substance in the widest sense of the word. In the concept of substance we include not only names of living beings (e.g. boy, girl, bird) and lifeless things (e.g. table, chair, book), but also names of abstract notions, i.e. qualities, slates, actions (kindness, strength, sleep, fear, conversation, fight), abstracted from their bearers. In speech these types of nouns are treated in different ways, so one, who does not know ways of treatment, can make mistakes in his speech. Standing on such ground, we considered the theme of the work actual enough to make investigation.

Contents:
I. Introduction
1.1. General characteristics of the work
1.2. General Characteristics of English Nouns
The Main Part
2.1. Main Features of English Nouns
2.1.1. The Category of Case
2.1.2. The Category of Number of English Nouns
2.2. Structural Semantic Characteristics of English Nouns
2.2.1. Morphological Characteristics of Nouns
2.2.2. Syntactical Characteristics of Nouns
2.2.3. Characteristics of nouns due the way of their composition
2.2.4. Semantical Characteristics of Nouns
2.3. English Nouns in Speech
2.3.1. Noun Grammemes in Speech
2.3.2. The Use of Articles with Nouns in Some Set Expsessions
2.3.3. Test Exercises
2.4. Comparison of English and Russian nouns
II. Conclusion
III. Bibliography
IV. Appendix