Proper nouns and common nouns

Potential articles / sections

• Nouns can generally be preceded by a number-measure word combination.
• Repeating single-character nouns to mean "every [noun]" (+ in this case no measure word needed).
• Plural nouns
  • Often no need to mark plural
  • Other elements of sentence can indicate plural, e.g. 都, numbers
  • Personal nouns and some animate nouns can be made plural with 们 (but only when nothing else in the sentence marks plural)
• Nouns involving the suffixes 子, 儿, 头
• Nouns can be subject, object and predicate in Chinese

Types of nouns

Could explain these as different rules can apply

• Proper
• Animate
  • Personal
• Inanimate
• Abstract

See also:

• Time nouns
• Locality nouns
• Position nouns

Sources

• 外国人实用汉语语法(中英文对照) (pp. 16 - 26)