Types of Nouns

There are several types of nouns in English. Nouns can be grouped in different categories as follows:

common nouns and proper nouns, concrete nouns and abstract nouns, countable and uncountable, collective nouns, compound nouns, etc.

1.Common Nouns

• The vast majority of nouns are common nouns.
• We call them common nouns because they do NOT name some specific person, place, thing, or idea.
• A common noun names any person, place, thing, substance, quality, or an idea.
• Words like a car, horse, teacher, table, house, happiness, movie, man, plane, city,ball—they are all “general” nouns.

2.Proper Nouns

• A proper noun is a name that identifies a particular person, place, thing, or idea.  e.g. Bob, Africa, New York, Monday.

• Your name is a “proper noun”.
• Proper nouns are always capitalized in the English Language.

   

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