Nouns are divided into five kinds
Proper Noun
A Proper Noun is the name of some particular person,place or thing. Proper means one's own hence a Proper Noun is a person's own name. Proper Noun always written with a capital letter at the beginning.In sometimes i is used as common nouns
eg; Asoka, Calcutta, Everest, Ganges.
Common Noun
A Common Noun is a name given in common to every person or thing of the same class or kind. it is shared by all.
eg; man,woman,girl,table,island,country, building,river,picture,house,etc.,
Collective Noun
A collective Noun is the name of a group of persons or things taken together a single hole
eg: crowd, army, team, family, assembly, committee,etc
An army - a collection of soldiers.
A coward - a collection of people.
Abstract Noun
An Abstract Noun is the name of a quality , state or action of a person or thing.
The names of Arts and sciences
(eg: Music, Physics, Grammar etc ) are also Abstract Nouns.
Example:
goodness, kindness, slavery, poverty, laughter, theft, childhood, etc.
Action : laughter, movement, judgement, etc
State : boyhood,youth,sleep,sickness,death,etc.
Some of the abstract nouns formed from the verbs.
some of the abstract nouns formed from the common nouns.
Material Noun
Material Nouns are the names of materials out of which things are made.
Example: gold,wood,stone,iron,wool,bronze,clay,etc
Adjectives Abstract Nouns
young youth
decent decency
strong strength
true truth
deep depth
short shortness
bitter bitterness
Some of the abstract nouns formed from the verbs.
Verbs Abstract noun
live life
expect expectation
obey obedience
laugh laughter
some of the abstract nouns formed from the common nouns.
Common nouns Abstract nouns
infant infancy
owner ownership
woman womanhood
man manhood
thief theft
Material Noun
Material Nouns are the names of materials out of which things are made.
Example: gold,wood,stone,iron,wool,bronze,clay,etc
