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KINDS OF NOUNS

COLLECTIVE NOUN:
A collective noun is a name of a number of
persons or things taken together and spoken of
as one whole.
EXAMPLE:
• Crowd
• Flock
• Family
• army
ABSTRACT NOUN :
An Abstract noun is usually ACTION:
the name of a quality, action, • Theft
or state considered apart • Hatred
• Laughter
from the object to which it
belongs. STATE:
• Childhood
QUALITY:
• Boyhood
• Goodness • Youth
• Darkness • Sleep
• Honesty • Death
• Wisdom • poverty
• Bravery
COUNTABLE NOUNS :
countable nouns are the names of
objects, people ,etc that we can count.
EXAMPLES:
• Books
• Pen
• Apple
• Doctor
• Boy
• girl
UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS :
uncountable nouns are name of things
which we cannot count.
EXAMPLE :
• Milk
• Sugar
• Gold
• Honesty
• Oil
• rice

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