Example of all kinds of nouns?

Answer 1

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 of specific items, 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.

Answer 2

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

Example sentences:

The doctor will see you now. (a word for a person)

The beach was very crowded, (a word for a place)

We ordered a pizza. (a word for a thing)

A simple seamstress, Rosa Parks was an unlikely hero. (words for a person)

The bottom of the Pacific is still a difficult place to explore. (words for places)

The pavement on Main Street is full of cracks. (words for things)

Answer 3

Nouns are words for people, places, and things. The kinds of nouns are:

Singular nouns are words for one person, place, or thing.

Plural nouns are words for more than one person, place, or thing.

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.

Common nouns are nouns that refer to types of people, places, and things, 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.

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 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 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 nounsare words for a group of specific items, animals or people. 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 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; for example 'I went fishing.' or '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.