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give me the explanation of all types of noun​

Answer 1

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give me the explanation of all types of noun

give me the explanation of all types of nounExplanation:

• common noun
• proper noun
• collective noun
• abstract noun
• etc are some nouns

Answer 2

Nouns refer to persons, animals, places, things, ideas or events, etc. Nouns encompass most of the words of a language.

Noun can be a/an :

○ Person : a name for a person:- Neha, Kunal , Bob, Max etc.

○ Animal : a name for an animal:- dog,cat,cow, etc.

○ Place : a name for a place:- London, Australia , India, Japan , etc.

○ Thing: A name for a thing :- bat, ball, chair, door,etc.

○ Idea : a name for an idea :- devotion, superstition , excitement, etc.

Different types of Nouns:-

★ Proper Noun

★ Common Noun

★ Abstract Noun

★ Concrete Noun

★ Countable Noun

★ Non-countable Noun

★ Collective Noun

★ Compound Noun

Proper Noun

A Proper Noun is a name which refers only to a single person, place or thing and there is no common name for it written English, a proper Noun always begins with a capital letter.

Example : Melbourne ( it refers to any particular City), Steve ( refers to a particular person)

Common Noun

A common noun is a name for something which is common for many things, person or places. It encompasses a particular type of things ,person or places.

Example : Country ( it can refer to any country, nothing in particular), city ( it can refer to any city like New Delhi ,Mumbai,etc. but nothing in particular)

So, a common noun is a word that indicates a person, place, thing etc. in general and a proper noun is a specific one of those.

Abstract Noun

An abstract noun is a word for something that can't be seen but is there, It has no physical existence, Generally, it refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions.

Example : Truth, Lies, happiness, sorrow, time, friendship, etc.

Concrete Noun

A concrete noun is the exact opposite of the abstract noun. It refers to the things we see and have physical existence.

Example : Chair, Table, bat, fan, ball, water, money, etc.

Countable Noun

The nouns nouns that can be counted are called countable noun. Countable nouns can take an article: A, an, the

Example : Chair, table, bat, fan, ball, etc. ( you can say 1chair 2chair 3chair - so chairs are countable)

Non-countable Noun

The nouns that cannot be counted are called non-countable nouns.

Example : water, sugar, oil, salt, etc. ( you cannot say 1water, 2 water , 3 water , because water is Non-countable)

Abstract Noun and Proper Nouns are always Non-countable Nouns ,but common nouns and concrete nouns can be both counts and non counts noun.

Collective Noun

A collective noun is a word for a group of things, people, animals , etc.

Example : family, team , jury , cattle, etc.

Collective Nouns can be both plural and singular. however, Americans prefer to use collective nouns as singular, but both of the uses are correct in other parts of the world.

Compound Noun

sometimes two or three nouns appear together, or even with other parts of speech, and create idiomatic compound nouns. idiomatic means that those nouns behave as a unit and, to a lesser or greater degree, amount to more the one some of their parts.

Example : six-pack , five-year-old, and son-in-law, snowball, mailbox, etc.