There are four kinds of nouns:
a) Common Noun A common noun names a class of similar things (chair, box), and not an individual member of a specified group of people or things. We do not capitalize the first letter of a common noun unless it is the first word in a sentence. Common nouns are names of people, things, animals and places, etc.
b) Proper Noun A proper noun is a special name of a person, place, organization, etc. We spell a proper noun with a capital letter. Proper nouns also refer to times or to dates in the calendar. We can use plurals for proper nouns in exceptional cases.
There are three Johns in my
class.
We can also use the, an, or a
for a proper noun in special circumstances.
This is no longer the London I used to live in.
c) Concrete Noun A concrete noun is something we see or touch. It is the opposite of an abstract noun. There are countable concrete nouns and uncountable concrete nouns.
d) Abstract Nouns An abstract noun is a quality or something that we can only think of rather than as something that we can see or touch, e.g. beauty, courage, friendship, intelligence, truth. We can form abstract nouns from common nouns (child – childhood); from verbs (know – knowledge); and from adjectives (happy – happiness). Collective Nouns A collective noun is a name used for a number of people, animals or things that we group together and speak of as a whole. For example, a bunch of bananas, a litter of puppies, a flock of sheep, etc. Viewed as a single unit, a group uses a singular verb; regarded as separate members making up the group, it takes a plural verb.
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1. Kinds of Nouns
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