what is noun and kinds of noun?
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Explanation:
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: - Max, Julie, Catherine, Michel, Bob, etc.
Animal – a name for an animal: - dog, cat, cow, kangaroo, etc.
Place – a name for a place: - London, Australia, Canada, Mumbai, etc.
Thing – a name for a thing: - bat, ball, chair, door, house, computer, etc.
Idea – A name for an idea: - devotion, superstition, happiness, excitement.
Different Types of 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. In written English, a proper noun always begins with capital letters.
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.
Abstract Noun:
An abstract noun is a word for something that cannot be seen but is there. It has no physical existence. Generally, it refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions.
Concrete Noun:
A concrete noun is the exact opposite of abstract noun. It refers to the things we see and have physical existence.
Countable Noun:
The nouns that can be counted are called countable nouns. Countable nouns can take an article: a, an, the.
Non-countable Noun:
The nouns that cannot be counted are called non-countable nouns.
Collective Noun:
A collective noun is a word for a group of things, people, or animals, etc.
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 than the sum of their parts.
☆ Question ☆
What is noun and kinds of Nouns
☆ Answer ☆
A noun is a word used as name of a person , place, or thing .
Note:- The word thing is used to mean anything that we think of .
Look the following sentence:-
Ashoka was a wise king
the noun Ashoka refers to a particular king but the noun king might be applied to any other things as well as to Ashoka we call Ashoka a proper noun and King a common noun .
Similarly ,
Sita is a proper noun , while girl is a Common Noun.
Hari is a proper noun , while boy is a Common Noun.
Kolkata is a proper Noun, while country is a Common Noun .
India is a proper Noun, while people is a Common Noun.
The word girl is a common Noun, because it is a Common Noun, because it is a name to all girls , while Sita is a proper Noun because it is a name of a particular girl.
☆Definitions ☆
☆. Common Noun - A common noun is a name given in common to every person or
thing of the same class or kind .
[Common here means shared by all]
☆. A proper Noun- A proper Noun is the name of the particular person or place.
[ Proper means one's own. Hence , a proper name is person's own name. ]
☆Key concept :- ☆
☆. proper nouns are always written with a capital letter at the beginning .
☆. Proper Nouns are sometimes used as common Nouns ; as
1. He was the Luckman (= the wisest man) of his age .
2. Kalidas is often called Shakespeare (= the greatest dramatist) of India .
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☆common nouns include what are called collective nouns and abstract noun ☆
☆. A collective Noun - collective noun is the name of a number or collection of persons or things taken together and spoken of as one whole .
Examples:-
A fleet = A collection of sheeps and vessels .
An army = A collection of soldiers,
A crowd = A collection of people .
☆. An abstract Noun- abstract noun is usually the name of equality action or state considered apart from the object to which it belongs As ,
Quality - Goodness , kindness, whiteness, darkness, hardness, brightness, honesty, wisdom, bravery .
Action - laughter, theft , movement , judgement, hatred.
State - Childhood , boyhood, youth , slavery, Sleep, sickness, death , poverty.
The names of the Arts and science ( eg,,. Grammar, Music , Chemistry, etc) are also Abstracts Nouns .
☆ . Abstracts Nouns are formed - ☆
(1). Forms Adjectives ;as ,
kindness from kind ; honesty from honest .
[Most abstract nouns are formed thus .]
(2). From Verbs ;as ,
Obedience from obey ; Growth for grow .
(3). From Common Nouns; as,
Childhood for child ; Slavery from slave .
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☆Another classifications of Nouns is whether they are " Countable" or " Uncountable ".☆
☆.Countable nouns ( or countables) are the names of objects , people, etc . that we can count , eg,... Book, pen, apple , boy, sister, doctor , horse.
☆. Uncountable Nouns (or ununcountables) are the names of things that we cannot count , eg,,.. Milk, oil, sugar, gold , honesty. They mainly denote substances and Abstract things.
Countables nouns have plural forms while uncountable nouns do not .
For example we say "books" but we cannot say "Milks ".