Nouns

 

A noun is a part of speech used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action. A noun can function as a subject, object, complement, appositive, or object of a preposition.

  Nouns  
  It can be singular or plural.  
     
 

Plural nouns usually add ‘-s’ to the end of the word, except for irregular nouns.

 
     
 
Singular Plural
Tooth Teeth
Fish Fish
Woman Women
Man Men
 

 

  Types of nouns  
 
(a) Abstract
(b) Collective
(c) Compound
(d) Common
(e) Countable
(f) Uncountable
 

 

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 Abstract Nouns

 
  Abstract nouns  
  Used to describe something that cannot be seen or touched. It is used to describe qualities, states, and events, or actions.  
  Examples: Freedom, love, courage  
     
 
1.2

 Collective Nouns

 
  Collective nouns  
  Used to represent a group of people or things.  
  Examples: Family, flock, audience  
     
 
1.3

 Compound Nouns

 
  Compound nouns  
  Nouns that are made up of two or more words.  
  Example: sister-in-law, schoolboy, fruit juice  
     
 
1.4

 Common Nouns

 
  Common nouns  
  A name given to every person, place, object, or animal of the same kind of group.  
  Example: table, market, John, Paris, giraffe  
     
 
1.5

 Countable Nouns

 
  Countable nouns  
  Refer to objects that can be counted in numbers.  
 

There are two types:

SIngular countable nouns

Plural countable nouns

 
  Example of plural countable nouns: friends, houses, buses  
     
 
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 Uncountable Nouns

 
  Uncountable nouns  
  Refer to objects that cannot be counted in numbers.  
  There is only one type; Singular, uncountable nouns.  
  Example: money, water, love