TAILIEUCHUNG - Ace the toefl essay part 10

Included are ten model essays written by a real college professor in response to ten real sample essay questions, designed to get you the high¬est score possible on the TOEFL essay exam. | CHAPTER FOUR Parts of Speech Parts of Speech Nouns A noun is the name of a 1 person 2 place or 3 thing. Nouns are either proper or common. For example the name of a person is a proper noun. So when we write the name Tom Smith it should be capitalized. However the word boy does not require capitalization. It is a common noun. The name of a specific place such as New York requires capitalization. It is a certain place and there is only one New York City at that exact location. However a location like the mountains is the name of a place but there are many mountains and one must be specific in order to make this a proper noun. A thing may describe an infinite number of possibilities therefore most things come under the heading of common nouns which generally do not need to take a capital letter. These are some good examples car ship house and computer. Note that if we put a specific name to the noun we must capitalize it. For example Lexus Titanic and Alpha are all good examples of very specific nouns that require capitalization. So we see that there are proper nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns take capital letters and common nouns do not. 82 Ace the TOEFL Essay TWE Note One must always capitalize Far East Middle East Near East North America South America Europe and Asia. There is also a set of nouns that we call abstract. These nouns name items that are not tangible. One cannot touch them or hold them in his hand. Arguably they can be felt. A good example is grief. One can certainly feel the death of a family member but the feeling is abstract untouchable. Happiness sadness excitement danger and anxiety are all abstract nouns and they are not written with capital letters. Concrete nouns on the other hand can be touched. Some examples are pennies paper water and cups. They are either count or noncount as seen below. Count nouns are those that can be physically counted in other words one can see the number of the things at hand or better put in hand. Boys girls .

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