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Answer 1

TYPES OF NOUN

Proper Nouns

Proper nouns are nouns that refer to specific entities. Proper nouns like Nebraska, Steve, Harvard, or White House are capitalized to show their distinction from common nouns, such as "man" or "building."

Common Nouns

Common nouns refer to general, unspecific categories of entities. So, while Nebraska is a proper noun because it names a specific state, state is a common noun because it can refer to any state. While Harvard refers to a particular institution of higher learning, the common noun university can refer to any such institution.

Material Nouns

Material nouns refer to materials or substances from which things are made . For example:

We use cotton from a local farm in our t-shirts.

Compound Nouns

A compound noun contains two or more words that join together to make a single noun. Compound nouns can be two words written as one (closed form) such as softball and toothpaste, words that are hyphenated (hyphenated form) such as six-pack and son-in-law, or separate words (open form) such as post office and upper class that go together by meaning.

Countable Nouns

Countable nouns can occur in both single and plural forms, can be modified by numerals, and can co-occur with quantifying determiners such as many, most, more, several, etc.

For example,

There is a bike in that garage.

In this example, the word bike is singular because it refers to one bike that is sitting in a particular garbage.

There are six bikes in that garage.

In this example, the plural noun bikes refers to more than one bike because it is being modified by the numeral six.

Uncountable Nouns

Some nouns are not countable. They're called uncountable nouns or mass nouns. For example,

the word clutter is an uncountable noun.

The garage is full of clutter.

This sentence makes grammatical sense.

Uncountable nouns usually cannot take plural forms. Therefore, clutters isn't grammatical. Substances, liquids, and powders are entities that are often signified by mass nouns such as milk, rice, wood, sand, water, and flour.

Collective Nouns

Collective nouns are nouns that refer to a group of something in particular. Often, collective nouns are used to refer to groups of animals. Consider the following sentences.

Look at that gaggle of geese.

There used to be herds of wild buffalo on the prairie.

Concrete Nouns

Concrete nouns are nouns that refer to things that exist physically and can be touched, seen, smelled, felt, or tasted. Here are some examples:

Can I pet your dog?

Please pass the salt.

Your sweater is made of such soft wool.

Concrete nouns can be perceived by at least one of our senses.

Abstract Nouns

More ethereal, theoretical concepts use abstract nouns to refer to them. Ideas, qualities or conditions like love, hate, power, and time are all examples of abstract nouns.

All you need is love.

I hate my new school.

We must use this time wisely.

In these sentences, the abstract nouns refer to concept or entities that cannot be perceived concretely or touched physically.

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Answer 2

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Defining a Noun

A Noun is the name of a person, animal, place, thing or quality.

1. »»»All naming words are Nouns.

Kinds of Nouns

There are five kinds of Nouns:

1. Proper Nouns :- India, Lucknow, Yamuna, Raman
2. Common Noun :- boy, girl, person, city, river
3. Collective Nouns :- army, class, navy, flock, family
4. Material Nouns :- gold, silver, aluminium, milk, sugar
5. Abstract Noun :- honesty, kindness, childhood, hatred, beauty

1. Proper Nouns

A Proper Noun always begins with a Capital Letter.

• A Proper Noun is the name of a particular person, place or a thing.

Note: Proper Nouns include the names of people, countries, cities, towns, villages, rivers, ships, streets, buildings, mountains, seas, months of the year, days of the week, festivals, etc.

2. Common noun:-

A noun which doesn't point out any particular person, place or thing but it is common to all persons or things of the same class or kind is called a Common Noun.

For example:- boy, girl, person, city, river

3. Collective Nouns

A Collective Noun is the name of a collection of persons or things taken together and spoken of as one whole.

For example,

1. The word bunch stands for a collection of keys.
2. The word class stands for a collection of students.
3. The word team stands for a collection of players.

4. Material Nouns

A Noun which stands for the matter or substance of which things are made of is called a Material Noun

Examples: iron, silver, gold, sugar, milk, cotton, wood, etc.

5. Abstract Nouns

An Abstract Noun is the name of a quality, feeling or idea that we can only think of or feel but cannot touch or see.

Words like heat, beauty, wisdom, truth, love, anger, height, depth, etc. are Abstract Nouns.

• We can feel heat, but we cannot touch or see it; what we touch or see is a hot object and not heat. Similarly, we can think of love but cannot see or touch love