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A noun is a word for a person, a place, or a thing.
The kinds of nouns are:
Singular nouns are words for one person, place, or thing.
Examples: apple, brother, calf, datum, glass
Plural nouns are words for two or more persons, places, or things.
Examples: apples, brothers, calves, data, glasses
Common nouns are words for any person, place, or thing. Common nouns are capitalized only when they are the first word of a sentence.
Examples are: general, tower, city, day, year, war, peace
Proper nouns are the names of people, places, things, or titles. Proper nouns are always capitalized.
Examples: General Eisenhower, the Tower of London, New Year's Day, or 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolsty.
Abstract nouns are words for things that you cannot detect with your physical senses; you cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or touch them. An abstract noun is a word for something that is known, learned, understood, thought, or felt emotionally.
Examples: tolerance, optimism, hatred, leisure, and gratitude.
Concrete nouns are words for things that can be detected by any of the physical senses; things that can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched.
Examples: hand, blueberry, knife, snow, and Clarinet.
Count nouns are nouns for things that can be counted, they have a singular and plural form.
Examples: one hand, two hands; one monkey, a barrel of monkeys; one dollar, a million dollars; and one man, two men.
Non-count (mass) nouns are things that can't be counted; they are words for substances and some abstract nouns for concepts.
Example substances: flour, sand, rice, aluminum, oxygen.
Example concepts: knowledge, harm, advice, news, or homework.
Multiples of non-count nouns are expressed measures or degrees.
Examples: a cup of flour; a roll of aluminum; some advice, a lot of homework.
The plural forms of non-count nouns are reserved for 'types of' or 'kinds of'.
Examples: kinds of rices are brown and basmati; a selection of teas.
Possessive nounsare 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: 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 nounsare words for a group nouns for multiples of thing, animals or people.
Examples: 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 brush
- hyphenated: mother-in-law, fifty-five, six-pack
- closed: bathtub, Baseball, houseboat
Gerunds (verbal nouns) are the present participle of a verb (the -ing word) that functions as a noun as the subject of a sentence or clause and the object of a verb or preposition.
Examples: 'I went fishing.'; 'Walking is good exercise.'; Talking will get you nowhere, try some doing.
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.
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Is network an abstract noun?
The modern use of "network" is an abstract noun, for a system of interconnected parts with a net-like structure. The original meaning (a woven fabric) is a concrete noun.
Is electrons an abstract noun?
No, the noun 'electrons', the plural form of the noun 'electron', is a concrete noun, a word for an elementary particle present in all atoms. An atom and all of its parts are physical things, the things of which all physical matter is made.
Is system a noun?
Yes, the word systems is a noun, the plural form of the noun system, a common, abstract noun; a word for the relationship between things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network.
What type of noun is the word department?
The noun 'department' is a singular, common noun; a word for any one of the major parts of a company, organization, government, or school; a word for the part of a store where a particular kind of product is sold; any subject or activity that a person is interested in or responsible for; a word for a thing.The noun 'department' is a concrete noun as a word for a physical location.The noun 'department' is an abstract noun as a word for a division or a subject; a word for a concept.
What type of noun is side?
The noun 'side' is a singular, common noun; a word for a thing.The noun 'side' is a concrete noun as a word for the surface of an object that is not the top or the bottom; a position to the left or the right of something; a part on the left or the right of something; one of two or more contrasted parts or places within an area; a word for a physical place or thing.The noun 'side' is an abstract noun as a word for a position, interest, or attitude of a person or group; a word for a concept.The word 'side' is also a verb and an adjective.
Is interchangeable parts a noun a verb or adjective?
Interchangeable is an adjective; parts is a noun.
What parts of speech is leader?
Noun.
What are the parts of a possessive noun?
An apostrophe s ('s) or just an apostrophe (') at the end of a noun are the parts of a noun that indicate possession.
Is body parts a common noun?
No, the compound noun 'body parts' is a commonnoun, a word for any body parts of anyone or anything.A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing.
What parts of speech is they?
It is a noun.
How many parts of speech in a noun?
There is only one part of speech in a noun--noun.
What parts of speech replaces a noun?
A pronoun takes the place of a noun.
What parts of speech is game?
noun
What parts of speech is door?
Door is a common noun.
Is traffic a countable or uncountable noun?
Yes, the noun 'traffic' is an uncountable noun, an aggregate noun, a word representing an indefinite number of elements or parts.
Is part a common noun?
Yes, the compound noun 'body parts' is a common noun, a word for any body parts of anyone or anything. A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing.
What parts of speech is palaver?
Noun.
