What are the two kinds of noun?

Answer 1

Two general classifications of nouns are singular, plural, and mass nouns.

• singular nouns are words for one person, place, or thing.
• plural nouns are words for two or more people, places, or things.
• mass (uncountable) nouns are words for substances or concepts that are indivisible into countable units.

Two general classifications of nouns are proper nouns and common nouns.

• common nouns are words for any person, place, or thing.
• proper nouns are the names of specific persons, places, or things.

Answer 2

Common nouns can be:

• singular, a word for one person, place or thing.
• plural, a word for two or more people, places, or things.
• uncountable (mass noun), a word for a substance, an element, or an aggregate of things.
• concrete, a word for something that can be experienced by any of the five physical senses; something that can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched.
• abstract, a word for something that can't be experienced by the physical senses; something that is known, learned, understood, or felt emotionally.
• possessive, a word that shows ownership, possession, origin, or purpose, indicated by use of an apostrophe or an apostrophe s.
• collective, nouns used to group nouns for people or things in a descriptive way.
• compound, nouns made up of two or more words merged to form with a meaning of its own.
• material, nouns for things that other things are made from.
• attributive (also called a noun adjunct), nouns that modify another noun and function as an adjective.
• gerund (verbal noun), the present participle of a verb (the -ing word) that functions as a noun.

Answer 3

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)

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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)

Answer 6

The types of nouns are:

Singular or plural nouns

Common or proper nouns

Concrete or abstract nouns

Possessive nouns

Compound nouns

Answer 7

The two types of nouns are proper nouns and common nouns.

Possessive nouns can be either common or proper.

Answer 8

Two kinds of nouns are:

• singular or plural nouns
• common or proper nouns
• concrete or abstract nouns
• count or uncountable (mass) nouns