A noun is the name of a person, place, animal or thing. nouns also name an emotion or quality or state.
A noun is the name of a person, place animal or thing.
- common noun and proper noun
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common
noun
Common noun names, people, places, and, things.
Examples of common noun, school, students, cat, ocean.
Priya is a proper noun, while girl is a common noun.
Paul is proper noun, while boy is a common noun.
Chennai is a proper noun, while city is a common noun.
India is a proper noun, while country is a common noun.
Asia is a proper noun, while continent is a common noun.
- proper noun
Proper noun names, specific people, places, and, things. Now let us see some examples of proper noun.
Examples of proper nouns
ABC school
John
spots
Pacific ocean
“proper noun names specific names of school students ocean etc. “
“Proper nouns always starts with capital letter.”
- collective noun
Collective noun
Collective noun is a word or phrase that refers to a group of people or things as one entity.
In simpler terms, it refers to more than one.
- example
- To speak of a collection or a number of persons or things as a whole or as one group, we use a collective noun.
A bunch of grapes.
A swarm of bees.
- example
- For example
I fought
a gang of thieves.
I saw
a flock of sheep.
A fleet of ships refers to a collection of ships.
An army of soldiers refers to a collection of soldiers.
A crowd of people refers to a collection of people.
- countable noun
Nouns naming things that can be counted are called countable or count nouns.
Countable nouns are nouns which have plurals.
Most common and countable nouns can
we counted.
- countable noun
Nouns that name things that cannot be counted are called uncountable or non count nouns.
Uncountable nouns don’t have plurals.
- This door is made of glass.
In the above sentence, glass refers to a material and it cannot be counted. It is therefore an uncountable noun.
- uncountable noun
Examples of countable nouns are
bird – birds
duck – ducks
gang – gangs
team – teams
manager – managers
boy – boys
bunch – bunches
- uncountable noun
Examples of uncountable nouns are materials like sugar, furniture, oil, water, gold, rice etc.
Uncountable nouns cannot be counted, but are measured in units. We cannot say, one sugar but we can say 1 kilo of sugar. We cannot say one milk but we should say one liter of milk.
1. pieces of furniture
2. a bottle of juice
3. 1K of wheat
4. a sheet of glass
5. a jar of pickle
In all these examples, the unit of measurement are being counted and not the nouns themselves.
- absrtact noun
An abstract noun is usually the name for a state of being, a concept, a quality or an action that has no physical existence. Things named by abstract nouns cannot be seen, touched, tasted or smelt.
- abstract noun
- abstract noun
Laughter is the best medicine.
I love my dog.
We have a natural desire to want to help others.
Finally, she worked up the courage and turned on the machine.
- absrtact noun
- abstract noun
Many abstract nouns are formed from
- Adjectives
strength from strong.
Youth from young.
- Verbs
Laughter from laugh.
Freedom from free.
- Common nouns
patriotism from patriot.
Friendship from friend.
The names of subjects like art, music, Math, biology etc. are also abstract nouns, because they are all concepts.
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concrete
noun
A noun referring to things that can be perceived or experienced through any of our five senses – which means that it can be seen, touched or felt, tasted, smelt or heard – is called a concrete noun.
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concrete
noun
Examples
1. Seetha ate an orange.
2. Put some salt in the rice.
3.The dog swam in the water.
In the sentences
above, Seetha, orange, salt, rice, dog, water, are all concrete nouns. Thus, concrete nouns can be common, proper or collective nouns.
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concrete
noun
