What are the kinds of nouns with examples?

Answer 1

A noun is a word for a person, place, thing, or idea. Examples:

• a person: man, woman, child, uncle, grocer, teacher, pharmacist, actor, minister
• a place: town, city, state, province, country, continent
• a thing: apple, cat, doughnut, egg, foot, grass, house, ice, jungle
• an idea: love, liberty, hope, courage, imagination, fear, crisis,

The first category of nouns is singular or plural. The above examples are all singular forms (words for one person, place, thing, or idea); another form for these nouns is plural forms (more than one). Examples:

• men, women, children, uncles, towns, cities, states, apples, cats, doughnuts, eggs, feet, loves, liberties, hopes, fears

Then there are concrete or abstract nouns.

Concrete nouns are words for things that can be experienced by one or more of the five senses; they can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted or touched. Examples:

• anchor, ball, chair, dog, egg, flag, grass, house, ice, jaw, kite, lamb, mosquito

An abstract noun is a word for things that can't be experienced by any of the five senses; they can't be seen, heard, smelled tasted, or touched. Examples:

• ability, belief, conscience, danger, ego, faith, grandeur, happiness, instant, joke, knowledge

The next category for nouns is common or proper. Common nouns are words for any person, place, thing, or idea. The examples above are all common nouns, both the singular and plural examples are common nouns.

A proper noun is the name for a specific person, place, thing, or idea or a common noun used in a title for a book, movie, character, business, company, etc. Proper nouns are always capitalized. Examples:

• common noun: proper noun

• man: George Washington
• woman: Marge Simpson
• minister: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• author: J.K. Rowling
• town: Cape Cod, MA
• city: London, England
• state: California USA
• province: Ontario, Canada
• apple: Mott's Apple Juice
• doughnuts: Dunkin Donuts
• egg: Egg Beaters
• jungle: The Jungle Book

Another category is possessive nouns. A noun that shows that something belongs to it. Examples:

• The man's car
• The woman's coat
• The children's pool
• The city's name
• The countries' flags
• The apple's core
• The cat's paws
• George Washington's wife
• Marge Simpson's hair
• Cape Cod's beach
• The Statue of Liberty's color
• Elvis's song Can't Help Falling In Love With You

Another form of noun is the compound noun. A noun made up of two or more nouns merged into one word with a meaning of its own. There are three types of compound nouns:

• open spaced: tennis shoe, front door, shoe store
• hyphenated: mother-in-law, fifty-five, six-pack
• closed: bathtub, baseball, houseboat

Gerunds (verbal nouns), the present participle of a verb (the -ing word) functioning as a noun, such as dancing, working, fighting, working, playing, thinking, etc.

Collective nouns are used to group nouns for people or things. Examples:

• bevy of quails
• blessing of unicorns
• block of flats
• board of directors
• bouquet of flowers
• brace of ducks

Material nouns are words for things that are used to make other things. Examples are wood, wool, steel, copper, cotton, cloth, milk, flour, glass, oil, plastic, etc..