Type of nouns in English grammar


A noun is a part of speech that is 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.





TYPES OF NOUN


DEFINITION: Noun is a word which is used to name something as a person, animal, thing and place. There are six kinds of noun in English.


1) Proper Noun


2) Common Noun


3) Abstractive Noun


4) Collective Noun


5) Compound Noun


6) Material Noun


1) PROPER NOUN


DEFINITION: Proper Noun is a name of particular thing, person, animal and place. On the other hand, proper noun is always written with a capital letter at the beginning of the word.


Example: Dara, New York, Cambodia, John, Angkor Wat…


2) COMMON NOUN


DEFINITION: Common Noun is a name which is given in common to everyone (person, thing, animal…..).


Example: Man, teacher, doctor, dog, cat, house, chair…


3) ABSTRACTIVE NOUN


DEFINITION: Abstractive Noun is the name of idea, quality and action that is the name of something we can’t touch, see, smell and taste.


Example:


Idea: Advice, ambition, wish...


- Quality: Goodness, kindness, darkness...


- Action: Talking, movement, discussion..


NOTE: Some Abstractive Nouns can make from many kinds of adjective, verb and common noun.


a) Abstractive Noun makes from adjective.





Adjective


Abstractive Noun


dark


poor


wise


honest


darkness


poverty


wisdom


honesty



b) Abstractive Noun makes from verb.





Verb


Abstractive Noun


hope


regret


help


promise


hope


regret


help


promise



c) Abstractive Noun is quite different from verb.





Verb


Abstractive Noun


live


die


know


advise


life


death


knowledge


advice



Verb Abstractive Noun


d) Abstractive Noun makes from common noun.





Common Noun


Abstractive Noun


man


friend


hero


infant


manhood


friendship


heroism


infancy



4) COLLECTIVE NOUN


DEFINITION: Collective Noun is a name of number or collection of person, thing and animal taken together and spoken as a whole.


Example: Army, committee, family, nation, association, community…


5) COMPOUND NOUN


DEFINITION: Compound Nouns are the nouns that are combined between one word with another word and can make from many kinds of noun, adjective and verb.





Noun/ Adjective/verb


Noun


Common Noun


sun


strong


walking


light


man


stick


sunlight


strongman


walking-stick



6) MATERIAL NOUN


DEFINITION: Material Noun is the name of particular object.






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