Noun

Fundamental Grammar
Noun
Nouns and verbs represent the two most important word classes. They are the first ones to be learned
by children and usually the most meaningful. They name the things around us and the processes they
are involved in.
 Nouns name things and persons: (woman, man, boy, book, desk, chair, and so on)
 Other things cannot be seen directly but inferred from facial expressions because they describe a
human emotion or another mental state: (puzzlement, annoyance, and idea)
 Other things (such as air and noise) we are not really able to see, but from what we know about the
world we know they are there.
 Name events (a walk)
 Situations seen as things (a gathering).
Kinds of Noun
Proper Common

 Proper nouns, usually capitalized in English, are  Common nouns refer to persons and things by
names for a particular person or thing: Peter, their general name: boy, girl, country, idea, and so
Dorothy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and so on. on.
 Most proper names are singular, but also plural
nouns like the United States and the Alps are used
as proper nouns.
Concrete VS Abstract Nouns
 Concrete nouns refer to things that are
tangible like mountain, bicycle, and table.
 Abstract nouns refer to things that are not
tangible like idea, thought, and dream.
 Also nouns referring to processes like
transportation, move, adaptation, walk and so
on are considered abstract nouns.

However, the distinction between concrete and abstract is not always clear-cut. For
example, a bicycle refers to a concrete thing and love to an abstract thing, but especially
nouns expressing actions (a walk, a yelp, a smoke) are not clearly one or the other.
Nouns: Subjects and Objects
noun

 A noun is used as the  Birds fly

subject of a sentence subject verb

noun noun
 A noun is used as the  John is holding a pen
object of a verb subject verb object

noun
 A noun is also used as 
noun
Birds fly in the sky
the object of a subject verb prep object
preposition
Noun Practice
1. ___ eat 7. ___ think
2. ___
√ dog 8. ___
√ mathematics
3. ___ beautiful 9. ___
√ flowers
4. ___ have 10. ___
√ juice
5. ___
√ eyes 11. ___
√ Paris
6. ___
√ English 12. ___ wonderful
To be sure that a word in a sentence is used as a noun, you can apply the
following grammatical tests:

 See if you can put the in front of it. (This works

for most nouns, except proper nouns.)
 See if you can change it from singular to plural
or vice versa.
 See if you can substitute it with a pronoun like
it or they.