NOUNS

NOUNSWhat are nouns?

• A noun is a word for a person, place, or thing. Everything we can see or talk about

is represented by a word which names it. That "naming word" is called a noun .

• A noun is a part of speech that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

• A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. Whatever exists, we

assume, can be named, and that name is a noun.

• noun (noun): a word (except a pronoun) that identifies a person, place or thing, or

names one of them (proper noun)

• The most popular definition of a noun is as follows “a noun is a word use to name

person, place or thing. “In fact we use noun to express the rank of additional

meaning. Such as concepts, qualities, organizations, communities, sensations and

events. Nouns convey a substation proposition of the information in most text.

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES FOR A NOUN..

• person: man, woman, teacher, John, Mary

• place: home, office, town, countryside, America

• thing: table, car, banana, money, music, love, dog, monkey

THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF NOUNS IN

ENGLISH..

• Proper noun

• Common noun

• Collective noun

• Abstract noun

• Animate / personal noun

• Inanimate / non-personal noun

• Countable noun

• Uncountable noun / mass noun

• Compound noun

PROPER NOUN

• Proper noun is the name of some particular person or place. Proper means,

one's ownership. Proper name is a persons own name.

• Proper nouns are always started with a capital letter at the beginning.in other

word proper nouns are words which begin with capital letters and are not at

the beginning of the sentence. They are often the names of people, place or

institution etc.;

• Your name is a proper noun. A proper noun is the special word that we use

for a person, place or organization, like John, Marie, London, France or

Sony. A name is a noun, but a very special noun - a proper noun. Proper

nouns have special rules.

• EX – He is Kamal.Kamal is a Doctor .

COMMON NOUN

• a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular

individual.

• Ex- Rani is a girl

Proper noun Common

noun

COMMON NOUN PROPER NOUN

MAN, BOY JOHN

WOMAN, GIRL MARY

COUNTRY, TOWN ENGLAND, LONDON

COMPANY FORD, SONY

SHOP, RESTURANT MACEYS, McDONADLS

MONTH, DAY OF THE WEEK JULY, MONDAY

BOOK, FILM WAR AND PEACE, TITANIC

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

• Collective noun is a number of collection of persons or things taken together

and spoken of as one whole

• Ex- BOUQUET - BUNCH OF FLOWERS

HEET - COLLECTION OF SHIPS

ABSTRACT NOUN

• An abstract nouns usually the name of quality, action or state considering

apart from the object to which it belongs

Ex- Quality kindness , honesty

Action movement , laughter

State sleep , death

• The names of the arts and science are also abstract nouns..

Ex- Grammar , Music , Chemistry

• Abstract nouns are formed from adjectives , verbs and common nouns

Ex-

Adjective — Wise Adjective — Vacant

Abstract noun — Wisdom Abstract noun — Vacancy

Verb — Depart Verb — Please

Abstract noun — Departure Abstract noun — Pleasure

Common noun — Patriot Common noun — Agent

Abstract noun — Patriotism Abstract noun — Agency

ANIMATE (PERSONAL) NOUN

• A noun which refers to people, animals and living beings is an animate noun.

• ANIMATE NOUN. A semantic category of NOUN, referring to a person,

animal, or other creature (boy, sheep, worm), in contrast to an inanimate

noun, which refers to a thing or concept (corn, boyhood, sleep). In general,

animate nouns correlate with the pronouns he, she, who and inanimate

nouns with it, which.

• A semantic category of noun, referring to a person, animal, or other creature.

• The definition of animate is having life.

Humans, birds and reptiles are each an example of something that is

animate

INANIMATE (NON- PERSONAL) NOUN

• An inanimate noun refers to things that are not alive.

• A semantic category of noun that refers to a place, thing, or idea--not a

person, animal, or other creature

• An inanimate noun, which refers to a thing or concept (corn, boyhood, sleep).

In general, animate nouns correlate with the pronouns he, she, who and

inanimate nouns with it, which

COUNTABLE NOUN

• Countable nouns are for things we can count using numbers. They have a

singular and a plural form. The singular form can use the determiner "a" or

"an". If you want to ask about the quantity of a countable noun, you ask "How

many?" combined with the plural countable noun.

Singular Plural

One dogs Two dogs

One horse Two horses

One man Two men

One idea Two ideas

One shop Two shops

EXAMPLES -

• She has three dogs.

• I own a house.

• I would like two books please.

• How many friends do you have?

UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

• Uncountable nouns are for the things that we cannot count with numbers. They may

be the names for abstract ideas or qualities or for physical objects that are too small

or too amorphous to be counted (liquids, powders, gases, etc.). Uncountable nouns

are used with a singular verb. They usually do not have a plural form.

EXAMPLES

Tea,Sugar,Water,Air,Rice,Knowledge,Beauty,Anger,Fear,Love,Money,

Research,Safety,evidence

• We cannot use a/an with these nouns. To express a quantity of an uncountable noun,

use a word or expression like some, a lot of, much, a bit of, a great deal of , or else

use an exact measurement like a cup of, a bag of, 1kg of, 1L of, a handful of, a pinch

of, an hour of, a day of. If you want to ask about the quantity of an uncountable noun,

you ask "How much?". And they are always singular.

EXAMPLES -

• There has been a lot of research into the causes of this disease.

• He gave me a great deal of advice before my interview.

• Can you give me some information about uncountable nouns?

• He did not have much sugar left.

• Measure 1 cup of water, 300g of flour, and 1 teaspoon of salt.

• How much rice do you want?

COMPOUND NOUN

• A compound noun is a noun that is made with two or more words.

A compound noun is usually [noun + noun] or [adjective + noun],

but there are other combinations (see below). It is important to

understand and recognize compound nouns. Each compound

noun acts as a single unit and can be modified by adjectives and

other nouns.

• There are three forms for compound nouns:

open or spaced - space between words (tennis shoe)

hyphenated - hyphen between words (six-pack)

closed or solid - no space or hyphen between words

(bedroom)

• Here are some examples of compound nouns:

noun + noun football Shall we play football today?

adjective + noun blackboard Clean the blackboard please.

verb(-ing) + noun washing

machine

Put the clothes in the red washing

machine.

noun + verb(-ing) train-

spotting

His hobby is train-spotting.

verb + preposition check-out Please remember that check-out is

at 12 noon.

noun + prepositional

phrase

mother-in-

law

My mother-in-law lives with us.

preposition + noun underworld Do you think the police accept

money from the underworld?

noun + adjective truckful We need 10 truckfuls of bricks.

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