A complete sentence is composed of different classifications of words. If you can recognize certain words are nouns when you learn to speak Chinese, it will be helpful for you to guess the meanings of the words more accurate. For instance,前几天感冒了，吃了酚麻美敏片，现在终于好了. The teachers can lead students to find that 酚麻美敏片 is after 吃 and it is the object of the verb 吃. Then they will know it is a noun. According to the words 感冒, they will guess it is a kind of medicine for curing the cold.

In Chinese language, the nouns are usually used to indicate people or things and often functioned as subjects and objects. Since there are some features in the forms of nouns, we can recognize them in accordance with those characteristics. When learning Mandarin Chinese, some students may notice that the words after the structural particle的are usually nouns, which is the most obvious symbol of nouns. For some examples, 他的书 and 光滑的地板 and 绿油油的田野.

Usually speaking, the words that the numeral-classifier compounds modify are nouns like 一顿饭、两辆车and 三家酒店. When students see the prefixes such as阿、老 and 小, they can assure those words are nouns like 阿姨 and 老虎 and 小吃. In the same sense, the words with the suffixes 子、儿、头 and 者are usually nouns. What we often see are 刀子、鸟儿、石头 and 读者. Besides, 员、长、士、家、师 are also the suffixes of nouns. For some examples, 售票员、船长、博士、科学家 and 设计师.

Students often see the 把 structure in Chinese learning. And the words after 把 are usually also nouns. For example, 他把玻璃打破了. If the teachers show them this method to recognize the nouns when they teach Mandarin Chinese, they can take advantage of the features of the forms to recognize the nouns easily, thus helping them guessing the words meanings and understanding the texts.