NOUN

 Noun - names of a person, place, thing, or idea.

Examples: man, city, book and courage.
 Nouns are often followed by words like a, an, and the.

 two major types of nouns:

Proper and Common nouns.
 Proper noun - specific names of a person, place, thing, or idea and is
always capitalized no matter where they fall in a sentence.
Proper nouns are sometimes called proper names.
 Common noun - is a common name for one item in a class or group.

 Collective noun - used when referring to a group of people, animals,

concepts, ideas as single entity or things e.g. bucket of water, cast of
clowns, choir of singers, class of students and many more.

 Using collective nouns in sentences is a bit confusing because it is hard to

identify whether the collective noun is in singular or plural form depending
on the context of the sentence.
Note: When a unit is working in unison, a singular verb should be
appropriate to use but when they act separately, it is a must to use the
plural verbs and pronouns.
CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT NOUNS
 A concrete noun points out to a physical object, such as a cat, a table, or a book.
It can be identified through taste, touch, sight, hearing and or smell.

 An abstract noun is an idea or concept that does not exist in the real world.
An abstract noun cannot be touched, like love, loneliness or happiness. It cannot be
perceived using one of the five senses (i.e., taste, touch, sight, hearing, smelling).

COUNTABLE AND NON-COUNTABLE NOUNS

  Countable Nouns - nouns that can be counted
Countable nouns can take an article: a, an, the.
Example: the chair, an apple (countable noun)

 Non-countable nouns - nouns that cannot be counted.

Non-countable nouns never take the indefinite article (a or an), but they do take singular verbs.
The is sometimes used with non-countable nouns in the same way it is used with plural countable
nouns, that is, to refer to a specific object, group, or idea.
Example: Water, sugar, oil, salt (non-countable)