What are the kinds of noun by name and define the noun?

Answer 1

Kinds of nouns:

• singular and plural nouns
  • singular: one of a person, place, thing, or idea
  • plural: two or more persons, places, things, or ideas
• common and proper nouns
  • common nouns are words for any person, place, thing, or idea
  • proper nouns are the name of a person, place, thing, or a title
• concrete and abstract nouns
  • concrete nouns are words for something that can be experienced by any of the five senses, something that can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched
  • abstract nouns are words for things that can not be experienced by any of the five senses, something is known, learned, understood, or felt emotionally
• possessive nouns are nouns that show that something in the text belongs to someone or something; possession is indicated by adding an apostrophe s to the end of the word or, if the word already ends with an s, just add an apostrophe after the ending s.
• collective nouns are words that are used to group nouns for multiples of people or things
• compound nouns are nouns made up of two different words joined together to make a word with its own meaning; there are three types of compound nouns, open spaced (paint brush), hyphenated (mother-in-law), and closed (bathtub)
• count and non-count (mass) nouns
  • count nouns can be singular or plural, whichever is appropriate
  • non-count (mass) nouns are things that can't be pluralized, used only in the singular, things that are a substance or a quality. Substances, such as rice or sand are counted as units of (such as a grain of... or a bucket of...) but are count nouns when used as types of (types of rices; kinds of sands). Qualities can't be counted, such as poverty or honesty, you either have it or you don't.
• gerunds (verbal nouns), the present participle of a verb (the -ing word) used as a noun, such as dancing, working, fighting, etc. Gerunds are usually non-count nouns.
• material nouns are words for things that are used to make other things. Examples are wood, wool, steel, copper, cotton, cloth, milk, flour, oil, plastic.