Parts of the Classification of Words

Words Classification

Parts of Speech Function of Words

Nouns Determiners

Verbs Auxiliaries

Adjectives Intensifiers

Adverbs Prepositions

Conjunctions

Question Words

1. Noun

A noun is a word that represents a person, place, or thing. Everything we can see or
talk about is represented by a word. That word is called a "noun." You might find it useful to
think of a noun as a "naming word." For example, refers to a person ‘Evelyn Eudora’, a place
‘Rinjani’, a thing ‘Laptop’, an animal ‘Elephant’, a quality ‘Softness’, an idea ‘Justice’, or an
action ‘Hit’.

There are several types of noun, as follow:

A. Common Noun; A common noun is a noun that refers to people or things in
general, e.g. boy, country, bridge, city, birth, day, happiness.
B. Proper Noun; A proper noun is a name that identifies a particular person, place,
or thing, e.g. Steven, Africa, London, Monday. In written English, proper nouns
begin with capital letters.
C. Concrete Noun; A concrete noun is a noun which refers to people and to things
that exist physically and can be seen, touched, smelled, heard, or tasted.
Examples include dog, building, coffee, tree, rain, beach, tune.
D. Abstract Noun; An abstract noun is a noun which refers to ideas, qualities, and
conditions - things that cannot be seen or touched and things which have no
physical reality, e.g. truth, danger, happiness, time, friendship, humour.
E. Collective Noun; Collective nouns refer to groups of people or things, e.g.
audience, family, government, team, jury.
F. Countable Noun; The nouns that can be counted called by Countable Nouns.
Countable nouns can take an article: a, an, the. e.g. ball, table, fan, pen etc.