Grammatical features of nouns in the english and uzbek languages

Examples: The last two items of news were quite sensational.
Now I would like to add one more bit of information.
You might as well dispense with one or two pieces of furniture in the hall.
This kind of rendering the grammatical meaning of common number with uncountable nouns is, in due the situational conditions, so regular that it can be regarded as special supplementation in the categorical system of number.
Under this heading (namely, the first of the above two subparts) comes also the generic use of the singular.
Examples: Man's immortality lies on his deeds.
Wild elephant in the jungle can be very dangerous.
The choice of this or that suffix depends on a gender of a noun, on final phoneme and on other factors. It must be noted that a stress shift and a morphological change may take place when the suffixes cited above are added to the noun.
Examples: страна-страны, поле-поля, ухо-уши, сук-сучья, друг-друзья, имя-именя.
Besides, all plural forms of nouns, with exception to the accusative case, have a special suffix of their own.
Plural: Nom. товарищи
Gen. товарищей
Dat. товарищам
Accus. товарищей
Inst, товарищами
Prep, о товарищах.
The plural suffixes in Russian are all productive. In Uzbek the plural of nouns is formed by adding the suffix -лар to the stem and the stress is shifted to this ending: бола-болалар, китоб-китоблар, дафтар-дафтарлар.
The Uzbek nouns in contrast to the Russian ones have separate forms for number and case. Compare:
Uzbek Russian
Nom. олмалар яблоки
Gen. олмаларнинг яблок
Dat. олмаларни яблоки
Accus. олмаларга яблокам
Inst. олмалар билан яблоками
Prep. олмалар тўғрисида о яблоках.
In English nouns forming the plural by taking the suffix -(e)s have one common form for number and case, other nouns have separate forms for them. Examples: girls' school, men's hat, children's home.
In certain English compound nouns only the first element takes the plural form.
Examples: brother-in-law brothers-in-law
editor-in-chief editors-in-chief
looker-on lookers-on.
The Uzbek and Russian counterparts of these English nouns have both the singular and plural forms.
Compare: Uzbek: Russian: English:
Балиқ қани? Где рыба? Where is the fish?
Балиқлар қани? Где рыбы? Where are the fishes?
Some of the Russian countable nouns such as кино, пальто, такси, and цензура have no number opposition in contrast to their English and Uzbek counterparts.
English: Where is my coat? Where are our coats?
Uzbek: Пальтом қани? Пальтоларимиз қани?
Russian: Где моё пальто? Где наши пальто?
Some of the English abstract nouns (information, advice, business, news, work, progress) are used only in the singular, whereas in Russian and Uzbek the corresponding nouns are used in both numbers.

	Singular:	Plural:
English:	information	information
	advice	advice
	business	business
Uzbek:	ахборот	ахборотлар
	маслаҳат	маслаҳатлар
	иш	ишлар
Russian:	информация	информации
	совет	советы
	дело	дела

Differences and similarities between the English, Uzbek and Russian plural forms in meaning are as follows:

English: Uzbek: Russian:
1. Plurality of things, phenomena and notions; + + +
2. Plurality of sorts, kinds and types; + + +
3. Honour; + + +
4. Plurality of similar individuals; + + +
5. Members of a family. + + +
The second type of the described oppositional reduction, consisting in the use of the absolute plural with uncountable nouns in the plural form, concerns cases of stylistical marking of nouns. Thus, the oppositional reduction results in expressive transposition.