What Is a Noun? Definition, Types and Examples

What Is a Noun? Definition, Types and Examples:

A noun is a word that gives a name to people, person, place, thing or an idea and also refer other abstract objects. Every noun can be classified as either common or proper. Nouns can play the role of direct object, indirect object, subject, subject complement, object complement, appositive or modifier.

10 Types Of Nouns With Examples:

1. Common nouns:

Common nouns refer to an object, person place, or things. For examples house, cat, girl, country, athlete or theatre. Common nouns are undefined or generic.

2. Proper noun:

Proper nouns refer to a specific (not generic) person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are always capitalized in English. The names and titles of things are always proper nouns, such as the brand name KFC and the personal name Lakshya.

For examples Africa, Suresh Kumar, Magazine and National Geographic.

3. Countable Nouns:

In English, Countable nouns are individual people, animals, places, things, or ideas which can be counted. 

Example for singular a dog, a house, a friend etc.. Example for plural: a few books, lots of mangos etc..

4. Uncountable Nouns:

In English, Uncountable nouns are not individual objects. They usually do not have a plural form. Only it has a singular verb. so they cannot be counted.

For Examples: salt, sand, tea, sugar, water, air, rice, knowledge, anger, fear..

5. Singular nouns:

Singular nouns are nouns that refer to only one person, place or thing. For example house, cat, girl, country.

6. Plural nouns:

A plural noun refers to more than one. For example houses, cats, girls, taxes, countries.

Singular vs plural nouns:

All nouns are either singular or plural in number.

A singular noun refers to one person, place, thing, or idea, while a plural noun refers to more than one.

7. Compound Nouns:

A compound noun combines two or more words into one word. 

Compound nouns can appear as a single word, multiple words used separately, or words connected by hyphens.

Example:

dry-cleaning, Grandfather, toothpaste, Dining - table, output, ice cream, Railway station.

8. Collective Nouns:

A collective noun is a noun that functions as a singular noun while referring to a group of people, animals or things. 

A collective noun refers to a group that functions as one unit or performs the same action at the same time. 

For example:

the team plays in the main gym, crowd, flocks, committee, a sum of money.

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