What are the kinds of nouns and their differences?

Answer 1

The kinds of nouns are:

• singular noun are words for one person, place, or thing; plural nouns are words for two or more persons, places, or things.
• common nouns are words for any person, place, or thing; proper nouns are the name of a person, place, or thing.
• concrete nouns are words for things that can be experienced by any of the five physical senses; things that can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched; abstract nouns are words for things are things that can't be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched; they are things that can only be known, understood, learned, believed, or felt emotionally.
• possessive nouns show that something belongs to it; possession is shown by adding an -'s to the end of the noun or just an apostrophe for some nouns that already end with an -s.
• collective nouns are words that group nouns for multiples of like things.
• compound nouns are nouns formed by combining two or more words to form a noun with a meaning of its own.
• count nouns are words for things that can be counted, can be singular or plural; non-count (mass) nouns are words for thing that aren't counted, they're expressed by amounts, measures, or descriptions.
• gerunds (verbal nouns) are the present participle (the -ing word) that function as a noun in a sentence.
• material nouns are words for things that other things are made from.