damien rice: older chest: Photo: visualpanic via FlickrPart 37 of the Poligo Guide to Learning a Language.

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SECTION 4: This section explains how to divide the language into smaller parts and how to learn each part.

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The noun system is all the language connected with talking about things in the world, that includes people, things, images and ideas etc. Nouns are used in the language to talk about all these things. Like the verb system, this has different types of elements:

(1) How nouns fit into a sentence. This is the most important aspect of a noun system. Nouns must somehow show their relationship to other words and parts of a sentence. An important part of this is how the nouns show the relation to the action described by the verb. We already touched on this above in part (1) of the verb system. This is the connection between the verb and noun systems.

Learn some ways to tell the difference between countable and uncountable nouns.

There are some difficult points with countable nouns. Sometimes it is difficult to know if a noun is countable or not.

Some nouns can be both countable and uncountable. Often the meaning is different when a word is used as a countable noun and when it is used as an uncountable noun.

There are some difficulties associated with uncountable nouns. Sometimes it is difficult to know if a noun is uncountable or not.

Some nouns can be both countable and uncountable. Often the meaning is different when a word is used as a countable noun and when it is used as an uncountable noun.