Nouns in English

• A noun is often called a noun phrase.
• A noun phrase can be a single-word noun or usually longer than a single word.

Example

• Students love their parents(noun phrase:students)
• A good student loves his friends(noun phrase: A good student)

Nouns can be classified into five types:

1. Proper nouns
2. Common nouns
3. Collective nouns
4. Material nouns
5. Abstract nouns

Proper nouns

• It is the name of a particular thing or a person.
• Example: the name used for mountain, river, place, person, etc.

Common Nouns

• It is not to a particular thing or a person.
• It refers to every person or any or class or thing of the same kind.
• Eg., man, woman, girl, boy

Collective nouns

• A collective noun is the name of a group of people or a collection of things of the same kind.
• Example: class, jury, team, organization.

Material Nouns

• Material Nouns is the name of the material or an ingredient thing that a substance is made up of or a substance.
• Example: Iron, copper, rice, wheat

Abstract nouns

• Abstract nouns are the name of the quantities or states or concepts found in the various kind of objects.
• Abstract nouns are abstracted from concrete nouns.
• Concrete nouns are the names of the material things having size, shape or form.
• Example: the book is a concrete noun. Whereas beauty is an abstract noun.
• Concrete nouns refer to physical properties. whereas abstract nouns refer to mental properties.