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A noun is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events and feelings. Nouns can be a subject or an object of a verb, can be modified by an adjective and can take an article or determiner.

For example: Table Pencil The dog A white house Nouns also denote abstract and intangible concepts. For example: birth happiness evolution technology, etc.

Proper Nouns

Uncountable Nouns

Common Nouns

Type of noun
Countable Nouns Concrete Nouns

Abstract Nouns

The names of specific things, people, or places. Example: Jhon, France. They usually begin with a capital letter. Peter lives in Spain. Many people dread Monday mornings.

General names such as person, mansion, and book. They can be either concrete or abstract. Example :

People: man, woman, girl, baby, son, dughther, policeman, teacher Animals: cat, dog, fish, ant, snake Things: bear, book, boat, table, chair, phone Places: bank, school, city, building, shop Ideas: love, hate, idea, pride

Refer to things which you can touched, smelled, seen, felt, or tasted. Example : Steak, table, dog, Maria, salt, and wool. Can I pet your dog? Please pass the salt. Your sweater is made of fine wool.

More ethereal, theoretical concepts use abstract nouns to refer to them. Example : freedom, love, power, and redemption are all examples of abstract nouns. They hate us for our freedom. All you need is love. We must fight thepower.

Refer to things which can be counted (can be singular or plural)

There is a bike in that garage.In this example, the word bike is singular as it refers to one bike that is presently residing in a particular garage. However, bike can also occur in the plural form. There are six broken bikes in that garage.In this example, the noun bikes refers to more than one bike as it is being modified by the numeral six.

Refer to some groups of countable nouns, substances, feelings and types of activity (can only be singular) That garage is full of clutter.This sentence makes grammatical sense. However, the following example does not. That garage is full of clutters.Mass nouns can not take plural forms, and therefore a sentence containing the word clutters is ungrammatical.

By adding s

Examples: Bananas shoes

ducks boxes watches

By adding es to Examples: nouns that end in s, Buses classes ss, x, ch, sh and bushes o. By adding ies to nouns ending in y Examples: Baby Babies lady ladies Examples: Calf calves Shelf shelves Loaf loaves

Exceptions: Valley valleys Key keys Boy boys Exceptions: Dwarf dwarfs Hoof hoofs Roof roofs

By adding ves to nouns ending in f

Complete change

Examples: Child Ox Foot Tooth Goose Man Mouse Examples: Deer Sheep Clothing Furniture

children oxen feet teeth geese men mice deer sheep clothing furniture

Without change