Noun& its Types

nouns and its types.

                      The Noun

The Noun& its Types

A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, quality, action, etc

Example:

Person: - father, manger,

Places: - the royal palace, restaurant, mosque,

Things: - Toyota, book, cement

Ideas: - unity, ability, determination,

Kinds\Types of Noun: -

There are the five kinds of noun.

Examples of nouns

Proper noun: -

It is the name of a particular person, place, or thing.

Example:

            USA, London, Asia, Suzuki, Mars, Iceland, Hercules.

Common Noun: -

It is the name which is common to any person, place or thing of same kind.

Example: -

Village, boy, car, country, theatre, platform, market, square, tree, ocean.

Some nouns have plurals: - city-cities, village-villages etc.

Some nouns do not have plurals: - sheep-sheep, deer-deer,

Collective or group noun:-

It is the name of a number of things or animals or persons taken together. It is used as a common noun.

Example: -

               Team, army, nation, class, committee, fleet, bundle, flock, council, mob, crowd,

Material Noun

It is the name of material of which things are made.

Example: -

Silver, iron, wood, flour, milk, cement. (material like plastic, wood and iron with which things of daily us are made, ,materials like butter, flour, water, milk, and meat, with which foods are prepared and materials or chemicals like tincture, chloride, and bromide with which medicine or industrial goods are produced are all material noun.)

Abstract Noun: -

It is the name of quality, condition or action which cannot be seen or felt through the five senses or which can be imagined or thought of.

Example: -

Foolishness, wisdom, understanding, strength, weakness, child hood, quickness, slowness, etc.

Most of the material and abstract nouns are uncountable; who’s plural can not be had. Uncountable noun is also called mass noun.

Group nouns can be take singular or plural verb and pronouns:

The committee ha its meetings daily.

The jury sits in the room next to the court room.

Abstract Noun

Compound nouns

A compound noun is made up o f two or more words compound noun are written as words, separate words or words separated by hyphen.

Example:

Single word:        football, heartbeat, mountaintop, moonshine.

Separate word:   zero hour, carbon paper, subject matter.

Hyphens:               trouble-maker, short-sighted, one-piece.

Uncountable noun:

Noun whose plurals we cant have are countable nouns or uncountable;es.

Most material noun like zinc, blood, sugar and abstract noun like anger, peace, simplicity are of this kind.
Uncountable noun:

Noun whose plurals we can have countable nouns or countable s.

Example: most common noun like tree, friend and collective nouns like team, class, army are this kind.