THE NOUN: KINDS OF NOUNS
A Noun is a word used as the name of a person,
place or thing.
Note: The
word thing is used to mean anything that we can think of.
Examples:
The house is old.
A king was here.
Virtue is
its own reward.
Accidents will
happen.
Look at the following sentence:
Asoka was
a wise king.
The noun
Asoka refers to a particular king, but the noun king might be applied to any
other king
as well as to Asoka. We call Asoka a Proper Noun, and king a Common Noun.
Similarly:
Sita is a
Proper Noun, while girl is a Common Noun.
Hart is a
Proper Noun, while boy is a Common Noun.
Kolkata is
a Proper Noun, while city is a Common Noun.
India is a
Proper Noun, while country is a Common Noun.
The word
girl is a Common Noun, because it is a name common to all girls, while Sita is
a Proper
Noun because it is the name of a particular girl.
Defination
: - A Common Noun is a name given in common to every person or thing of the
same
class or
kind.
[Common
here means shared by all.]
Defination
: - A Proper Noun is the name of some particular person or place,
[Proper
means one's own. Hence a Proper Name is a person's own name.]
Note 1 -
Proper Nouns are always written with a capital letter at the beginning.
Note 2 -
Proper Nouns are sometimes used as Common Nouns; as,
1. He was
the Lukman (= the wisest man) of his age.
2. Kalidas
is often called the Shakespeare (= the greatest dramatist) of India.
Common
Nouns include what are called Collective Nouns and Abstract Nouns
Defination
: - A Collective Noun is the name of a number (or collection) of persons or
things taken
together
and spoken of as one whole; as,
Crowd,
mob, team, flock, herd, army, fleet, jury, family, nation, parliament,
committee.
A fleet =
a collection of ships or vessels.
An army =
a collection of soldiers.
A crowd =
a collection of people.
The police
dispersed the crowd.
The French
army was defeated at Waterloo.
The jury
found the prisoner guilty.
A herd of
cattle is passing.
Defination:-Nouns name people,
places, and things. One class of nouns is abstract. Your five senses
cannot detect this group of nouns. You cannot see them, hear them,
smell them, taste them, or feel them.
Examples:- Deceit
Dedication
Curiosity
Trust
Relaxation.
Another classification of nouns is whether
they are “countable” or “uncountable”.
Countable
nouns (or countables) are the names of objects, people, etc. that we can count,
e.g.,
book, pen, apple, boy, sister, doctor, horse.
Uncountable
nouns (or uncountables) are the names of things which we cannot count,
e.g.,
milk, oil, sugar, gold, honesty. They mainly denote substances and abstract
things.
Countable
nouns have plural forms while uncountable nouns do not. For example, we say
“books” but we cannot say
“milks”.
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