Two general classifications of nouns are singular, plural, and mass nouns.
Two general classifications of nouns are proper nouns and common nouns.
Common nouns can be:
Nouns can be classified as:
- Common nouns or proper nouns
- Singular nouns or plural nouns (collective nouns may be singular or plural)
- Abstract nouns or concrete nouns
- Compound nouns combine two or more nouns (or nouns and adjectives) to create a single term with a specific meaning.
- Possessive nouns (also genitive) act as adjectives to show attributes or ownership (the man's hair, Joe's car)
- Countable or uncountable nouns (mass nouns can also have plural forms)
A noun is a word for a person, place, or thing.
Categories of Nouns:
Singular nouns are words for one person, place, or thing.
Plural nouns are words for more than one person, place, or thing.
Common nouns are nouns are words for any person, place, or thing, such as bookkeeper, tent, unicycle, crossroads, month, antelope, city, and innocence. Common nouns are capitalized only when they are the first word of a sentence.
Proper nouns are the names of people, places, things, or titles; such as General Eisenhower, the Tower of London, New Year's Day, the Great Depression, the Battle of Gettysburg, or 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy. Proper nouns are always capitalized.
Abstract nouns are words for things that you cannot detect with your physical senses; you cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or feel them. An abstract noun is a certain category of things that are known, learned, understood, or felt emotionally. Abstract nouns include tolerance, optimism, hatred, leisure, and gratitude.
Concrete nouns are words for things with which you can physically interact, ones you can detect with your physical senses; things that can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched. Concrete nouns include person, goat, ferry, sunflower, blueberry, game, blouse, knife, snow, and Clarinet.
Count nouns are nouns for things that can be counted, that have a singular and plural form, for example one hand, two hands; one monkey, a barrel of monkeys; one dollar, five dollars, or a million dollars.
Non-count (mass) nouns are things that can't be counted; they are words for substances such as sand, rice, aluminum, oxygen; and some of the abstract nouns such as knowledge, harm, advice, news, or homework. Multiples of non-count substance nouns are expressed as tons of sand and grains of sand, or a sack of rice and a cup of rice. The plural forms of non-count nouns are reserved for 'types of' or 'kinds of', such as two types of rices are brown and basmati.
Possessive nouns are words that show that something in the sentence belongs to that noun; possessives are shown by adding an apostrophe -s to the end of the word, or occasionally just an apostrophe for some nouns that already end with -s. Examples of possessive nouns are the child's toys, the teacher's desk, the pie's crust, the elephant's baby, the bus's tire, or the bosses' meeting.
Collective nouns are words used to group nouns for people or things. Some examples are a crowd of onlookers, a bouquet of flowers, a herd of cattle, a team of players, a row of houses, or a pod of whales.
Compound nouns are nouns made up of two or more words merged into one word with a meaning of its own. There are three types of compound nouns:open spaced: tennis shoe, front door, paint brushhyphenated: mother-in-law, fifty-five, six-packclosed: bathtub, Baseball, houseboat
Gerunds(verbal nouns) are the present participle of a verb (the -ing word) that functions as a noun; for example 'Walking is good exercise.'
Material nouns are words for things that other things are made from. Some examples are flour, milk, concrete, sand, oil, plastic, cotton, fabric, wool, or wood.
The classifications of a noun are:
singular and plural nouns
common and proper nouns
abstract and concrete nouns
possessive nouns
collective nouns
compound nouns
count and non-count (mass) nouns
material nouns
gerunds (verbal nouns)
attributive nouns (nouns as adjective)
The types of nouns are:
Singular or plural nouns
Common or proper nouns
Concrete or abstract nouns
Possessive nouns
Compound nouns
The two types of nouns are proper nouns and common nouns.
Possessive nouns can be either common or proper.
Two kinds of nouns are:
The noun 'spinach' is an uncountable noun as a word for a plant or a food substance; for example:We planted two rows of spinach.The plural form 'spinaches' is reserved for types of or kinds of; for example:The kinds of spinaches are savoy, flat-leaf, and semi-savoy.
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The noun technology is a mass noun as a word for the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.Note: The plural noun 'technologies' is a word specifically for 'types of' or 'kinds of' technology.
The noun 'foam' is an uncountable noun as a word for a substance (water based or synthetic). The plural form 'foams' is a word for 'types of' or 'kinds of' foam.
king is a common noun. But King Solomon is a proper noun.
Two kinds of noun are proper noun and commonnouns.Other kinds of nouns are:SingularPluralAbstractConcreteCountUncountable (mass)PossessiveCollectiveCompoundGerundsMaterial
The noun 'spinach' is an uncountable noun as a word for a plant or a food substance; for example:We planted two rows of spinach.The plural form 'spinaches' is reserved for types of or kinds of; for example:The kinds of spinaches are savoy, flat-leaf, and semi-savoy.
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The two main kinds of nouns are singular or plural nouns, and common or proper nouns.A singular noun is a word for one person, place or thing: a child, a park, a bicycle.A plural noun is a word for two or more people, places or things: two children, the city's parks, a rack of bicycles.A proper noun is the name of a person, place, or thing: Nelson Mandela; Hawaii; Oreo.A common noun is a general word for any person, place, or thing: citizen; island; cookie.
The noun for cats of all kinds is feline.
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Yes, a possessive noun is a kind of noun; a possessive noun is a noun in the possessive case.Example:noun: treepossessive noun: the tree's leavesnoun: Robertpossessive noun: Robert's bicyclenoun: storypossessive noun: the story's end
The plural for for the noun kind is kinds. How many kinds of candy to you sell?
The noun 'food' is a mass (uncountable) noun as a word for a substance.The plural noun foods is a word for 'types of' or 'kinds of' food.
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