The Noun :- Noun is a naming word. It is a name of person, place, thing and animal.
Kinds of Noun:- There are five kinds of Noun in English.
1. Common Noun
2. Proper Noun
3. Collective Noun
4. Material Noun
5. Abstract Noun
1. Common Noun :- When the way of thinking is same for a name the Noun will be common. Or a Common Noun is a name given in common to every person or thing of the same class or kind.
For example:-
Person :- King ; Man ; Thief ; Woman ; Friend ; Author ; agent etc.
Place:- Counry ; City ; Twon ; Village ; Room ; Field ; House ; etc.
Thing :- Table ; Pen ; Pencil ; Shirt ; Door ; Gate ; Colour etc.
Animal :- Cow ; Dog ; Bitch ; Ewe ; Wolf ; Tiger etc.
Important Points :
· Common Noun always use as singular but we can use it as plural .
· Common Noun is always countable.
· Article ‘A/an’ always used before Singular Common Noun. But for making a Specific Common Noun, we use article ‘The’ with Common Noun.
· Always use small letter for a Common Noun spelling.
· Below the list of some common count Nouns :
Accident; dream; judge; newspaper
Adult; effect; lake; problem
Battle; election; machine; product
Beach; engine; magazine; scheme
Castle; idea; meal; shock
Cigarette; issue; message; smile
Country; job; minute; task etc.
2. Proper Noun :- When the way of thinking is defferent for a name from person to person the Noun will be proper. Or a Proper Noun is the name of some particular person or place. For example :-
Person :- Jack ; Tom ; Rohan etc
Place :- India ; United Kingdom ; Caneda etc.
Thing and Animal are not proper itself.
3. Collective Noun :- A collective Noun is the name of a number or collection of person or things or animals taken together as one whole.
For example:- Person :- Crowd ; Mob ; Team ; Army ; Jury; Family etc.
Place :- Nation ; Country ; State etc.
Things :- Bunch ; Heap ; Lock ; Flight ; bouquet etc.
Animals :- Herd ; Team ; Hive ; Swarm ; Litter ; Flock etc.
We can use Collective Noun as like :
- A herd of deer
- A shoal of fish
- A stock of geese
- A pair of shoes
- A bunch of flowers
- A gang of robbers
- A flock of sheep
4. Material Noun :- Material Nouns are the names of thing/ matter to which we can not count. They mainly denote Substances.
Material Noun have three situations :
1. Solid :- iron ; Gold ; Silver ; Copper ; Bronze ; Steel etc.
2. Liquid :- Oil ; Milk ; Water ; Tea ; Coffee etc.
3. Gas:- Oxizen ; Nitrogen ; Carbon-di-oxide etc.
5. Abstract Noun :- Nouns to which we can not see and touch but we can feel them are called Abstract Nouns. As like Quality ; Action ; State etc.
