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TYPES OF NOUNS

TYPES OF NOUNS-GLOBAL ENGLISH CREATIVITY

NOUN


‘Noun’ is the word that refers to a thing, a person, a place, an idea, a quality or an event.
e.g. Box, House, Julie, Benjamin, London, New York, Joy, Honesty, Brilliance, Generosity, Day, Lightning etc.

TYPES OF NOUNS

Proper Noun


A Noun that indicates a particular thing, person or place. It always remains in capital letter:

e.g. Albert Einstein, Amazon, Apple, Arthur, Atlantic Ocean, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, BMW, Bollywood, Britain, Buckingham Palace, Coca-Cola, Dubai, Earth, Eiffel Tower, Elon Musk, Facebook, Ferrari, Ganges River, Google, Harvard University, Hollywood, India, Instagram, January, Javed, John, Jupiter, Lake Victoria, Leonardo da Vinci, London, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mary, Mercedes, Microsoft, Monday, Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, NASA, New York, Nike, Oprah Winfrey, Oxford University, Pacific Ocean, Pablo Picasso, Paris, Paris, Sahara Desert, Samsung, Samsung, Sony, Sydney, Taj Mahal, Times Square, Titanic, Tokyo, Twitter, William Shakespeare. etc.

Common Noun


A Noun that indicates a thing, idea, person, animal or place in a class or group. It doesn’t remain in capital letter:

e.g. air, airplane, animal, anger, apple, baby, bag, ball, bed, belt, bird, blanket, book, bottle, bridge, brush, building, bus, camera, car, chair, child, city, clock, cloud, comb, computer, cup, doctor, door, dress, earth, elephant, family, fan, father, field, fire, fish, flower, friend, game, garden, garden, glass, goal, hospital, hotel, house, insect, jacket, keyboard, kitchen, light, lion, love, magazine, man, market, moon, mouse, mountain, neighbour, nation, newspaper, notebook, nurse, paper, park, pen, pencil, phone, pillow, plate, restaurant, river, road, room, school, screen, shop, shoe, shirt, sky, sock, sport, spoon, star, station, student, sun, table, teacher, team, toy, towel, train, tree, umbrella, village, watch, water, window, woman. etc.

Collective Noun


A Noun that indicates a collection of people, things, animals etc.

e.g.army, array, assembly, assortment, audience, band, batch, battalion, bench, bevy, board, bouquet, brood, bunch, bundle, caravan, chain, class, clutch, colony, collection, committee, company, congregation, convoy, crew, crowd, drove, family, flight, fleet, flock, forest, gang, gaggle, group, group, grove, heap, herd, horde, hospital, jury, library, litter, mob, muster, nest, orchestra, pack, pair, panel, parliament, party, platoon, pod, range, regiment, scatter, school, series, set, shoal, stack, staff, suite, swarm, team, throng, troop, troupe, tribe etc.

Material Noun


A Noun that indicates a material from which different things are made. It is not counted in numbers:

e.g. air, alcohol, aluminium, arsenic, asphalt, bamboo, barley, bauxite, brick, brass, bronze, butter, carbon, cement, cheese, chemical, chlorine, chocolate, clay, coal, cocoa, coffee, copper, coral, cotton, diamond, detergent, dye, emerald, flour, fur, gas, glass, glue, gold, granite, gravel, gum, helium, honey, hydrogen, ink, iron, ivory, jute, juice, lead, leather, limestone, lithium, marble, maize, magnesium, meat, mercury, methane, milk, nickel, nitrogen, nylon, oats, oil, oxygen, paint, paper, pearl, petroleum, platinum, plastic, polyester, potassium, quartz, resin, rice, rubber, rubber, ruby, salt, sand, sand, sapphire, shampoo, silica, silk, silver, soap, sodium, steel, sugar, sulphur, tar, tea, tin, uranium, varnish, vinegar, wax, water, wheat, wood, wool, zinc etc.

Abstract Noun


A Noun that indicates an idea, quality, feeling or concept. They cannot be seen or touched, they can only be experienced:

e.g. ability, ambition, anger, awareness, beauty, belief, bravery, clarity, compassion, confidence, courage, creativity, curiosity, danger, determination, dignity, discipline, despair, elegance, empathy, envy, equality, faith, fear, fearlessness, forgiveness, freedom, friendship, generosity, greed, gratitude, happiness, hate, honesty, hope, humility, imagination, inspiration, integrity, intelligence, joy, justice, kindness, knowledge, leadership, love, loyalty, luck, maturity, opportunity, passion, patience, peace, perseverance, pride, progress, respect, responsibility, sadness, shame, strength, success, sympathy, tolerance, trust, truth, understanding, unity, weakness, wisdom etc.

Concrete Noun


A Noun that indicates any living or non-living thing. It can easily be seen, touched, tasted, heard or smelled:

e.g. airplane, apple, bag, ball, banana, basket, bat, beach, bed, belt, bicycle, blanket, boat, book, bottle, box, brick, bridge, bucket, building, bus, camera, cap, car, chair, chain, clock, coat, computer, curtain, cup, doll, door, dress, dog, egg, fan, flower, fork, frog, gate, glass, glove, goal, hammer, hat, hill, hotel, house, jacket, key, kite, knife, ladder, ladder, lamp, lock, man, mattress, milk, mountain, mouse, nail, net, notebook, orange, pen, pencil, phone, piano, pillow, plate, radio, river, road, rock, roof, salt, sand, scarf, screen, screw, shoe, shirt, sock, sofa, spoon, stick, stone, suitcase, table, tablecloth, television, tire, toy, train, tree, wall, wheel, window etc.

Countable Nouns


A Noun that indicates the things which we can count using numbers. They are singular as well as plural. Words like ‘few, many, less, little, much, least, one, two, three etc.’ are used before them:

e.g. airplane/airplanes, apple/apples, bag/bags, ball/balls, banana/bananas, basket/baskets, bat/bats, bed/beds, bicycle/bicycles, boat/boats, book/books, bottle/bottles, box/boxes, bucket/buckets, bus/buses, car/cars, chair/chairs, clock/clocks, coat/coats, computer/computers, cup/cups, doll/dolls, dress/dresses, fork/forks, goal/goals, glove/gloves, grape/grapes, hat/hats, jacket/jackets, keyboard/keyboards, kite/kites, knife/knives, lamp/lamps, ladder/ladders, mango/mangoes, mouse/mice, notebook/notebooks, orange/oranges, pencil/pencils, pen/pens, plate/plates, scarf/scarves, shirt/shirts, shoe/shoes, sock/socks, spoon/spoons, stick/sticks, suitcase/suitcases, table/tables, toy/toys, train/trains etc.

Uncountable Nouns


A Noun that indicates the things which we cannot count using numbers. They are always singular:

e.g. advice, air, anger, art, baggage, bravery, bread, brick, butter, cash, cement, chaos, cheese, clay, clothing, coffee, cotton, courage, curiosity, currency, darkness, education, electricity, energy, equipment, fish, flour, freedom, fruit, furniture, glass, gold, health, heat, honesty, homework, ice, ink, information, intelligence, iron, joy, jewelry, justice, knowledge, leather, lightning, love, luck, luggage, marble, machinery, milk, money, music, news, nylon, oil, paint, paper, patience, peace, plastic, poverty, power, progress, rain, research, rice, rubber, sadness, salt, sand, shampoo, silk, silver, snow, soap, steel, strength, sugar, tea, thunder, time, toothpaste, unity, water, wealth, weather, weakness, wood, wool etc.

Compound Nouns


A Noun that indicates the combination of two or more words. Each Compound Noun acts as a single unit. It can be modified by adjectives or other nouns:

e.g. backyard, bathtub, bedroom, birthday, blackboard, blueberry, bookmark, bookshelf, breakfast, bus stop, butterfly, car park, cheesecake, check-in, classroom, doorstep, earthquake, fireplace, firework, footprint, football, grandmother, haircut, handshake, handwriting, highway, ice cream, keyboard, laptop, moonlight, newspaper, notebook, pancake, passport, playground, policeman, postman, rainbow, raincoat, shoelace, skyscraper, smartphone, snowflake, suitcase, sunflower, sunglasses, sunlight, swimsuit, tabletop, teamwork, teapot, timetable, waterfall, wallpaper, watermelon, whiteboard, windmill, workshop etc.

Possessive Nouns


A Noun that indicates the possession of something. Generally it is formed by adding apostrophes. They are both singular and plural:

e.g. Anna’s, Benjamin’s, boss’s, cat’s, Charlie’s, children’s, Daniel’s, David’s, dentist’s, Emily’s, Emma’s, Florida’s, Grace’s, Hannah’s, Isabella’s, Jack’s, James’s, John’s, Joseph’s, Lily’s, Lisa’s, Mary’s, Matthew’s, men’s, Michael’s, Mia’s, Olivia’s, one’s, Oscar’s, people’s, Peter’s, Rachel’s, Robert’s, Sam’s, Samuel’s, Sarah’s, shirt’s, Sophia’s, sun’s, Thomas’s, Tom’s, Victoria’s, visitor’s, William’s etc.


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