Nouns

Types of nouns:
Common noun
• Naming words for people, places, things and ideas in GENERAL
(not specific):
• E.g..: Duck, flower, hope, religion, girl, noise, animal, city, food,
house
Proper noun
• Used to name a SPECIFIC (or individual) person, place or thing:
• E.g..: Albert Einstein, London, Pluto, Microsoft…
Abstract Noun
• Something that has no physical existence, and you cannot see,
touch, hear, smell or taste it:
• E.g..: Belief, love, pride, happiness, time, fear, freedom…
Concrete noun
• Something that exists physically and at least one of the senses
can detect:
• E.g.
• Apple, lion, eyes, flower, moon, sock, shoes…
Compound noun
• Two or more words that create a noun. They can be written as
one word, joined by a hyphen or written as separate words:
• E.g..: Textbook, snowball, seafood, sunflower, rainfall, son-inlaw, milk
shake…
Countable noun
• Can be counted, have a singular and a plural form and can be
used with a number:
• E.g..: Pencil/pencils, apple/apples, train/trains, car/cars,
desk/desks, 10 houses, 1 bike…
Uncountable noun
• Cannot be counted, they often refer to substances, liquids and
abstract ideas:
• E.g.: Milk, food, water, snow, rice, soil, wood, air, happiness…
Collective noun
• Refer to a set or group of people, animals:
• E.g.: Bunch, audience, flock, group, family, stack, pile, team…
A complex noun:
• A compound noun that is formed when a noun is put together
with another part of speech.
• E.g.
• hair (noun) + cut (verb) = haircut
• sun (noun) + rise (verb) = sunrise