Question

What is the defination of noun and its kind with example?

Answer 1

noun is a name of thing, person, animal, flower etc.

eg. common noun, proper noun, abstract noun, collective noun.

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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