7 types of nouns: concrete, proper, collective, countable, uncountable ,compound, and abstract nouns.
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7 types of nouns
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In this article you're going to study the following:
- Identifying nouns
- concrete or common nouns
- proper nouns
- collective nouns
- abstract nouns
- compound nouns
- countable nouns
- uncountable nouns
IDENTIFYING NOUNS
Nouns are
the names of things, places or people. There are
7 types of nouns: concrete, proper,
collective, countable, uncountable ,compound, and abstract nouns.
Looking at concrete or common nouns
A concrete noun that can be identified through one
of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, or smell). Consider the
examples below:
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| Phone |
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| apple |
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| key |
Using proper nouns
A proper noun always
begins
with a capital letter. It is the
name
of a person, a place or an institution
Bob, England, The British Museum,
Hampton Court
River Thames, and The Royal Navy.
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| The British Museum |
Discovering collective nouns
A collective noun refers
to a group of objects, animals or people .
It is a singular word but most collective
nouns can be
made
plural. Here are a few examples
singular plural
a choir choirs
a herd herds
a team teams
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| a choir |
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| a team |
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| a herd |
abstract nouns
An abstract noun cannot
be seen or touched(not a physical object). It can be a
feeling, a state of mind, a quality, an
idea, an occasion or
a particular time. Here are some
examples:
Anger, month, peace,
night, darkness, health, summer
Happiness, patience, or war.
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| Happiness |
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| Anger |
Compound Noun
a noun that is made up of
two or more different words, for example, "cake shop",
"French fries", or "schoolteacher":
Compound nouns, like a snowflake,
contain a head (-flake ) and a modifying element (snow- ).
By avoiding the need for a
preposition, compound nouns can help you write more concisely: "running
shoes" instead of "shoes for running".
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| a cake shop |
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| French fries |
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| snowflake |
Countable noun
a noun that can be used in the singular
and the plural forms.
It can be counted.
Uncountable noun
a noun that can be used in the singular form only.
It can not be counted.
We use a singular
verb. For example,
this news is very
important.
