What are the forms of nouns?

Answer 1

Kinds of Nouns:

• singular and plural nouns
• common and proper nouns
• abstract and concrete nouns
• possessive nouns
• collective nouns
• compound nouns
• count and non-count (mass) nouns
• gerunds (verbal nouns)

Answer 2

Noun

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

Forms of Nouns:

Singular nounsare 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 nounsare 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 nounsare 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 nounsare 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 'Walking is good exercise.'

Material nounsare words for things that other things are made from. Some examples are flour, milk, concrete, sand, oil, plastic, cotton, fabric, wool, or wood.

Attributive nouns (also called a noun adjunct) are nouns that modify another noun and function as an adjective; for example almond cookies; school building; computer keyboard; or ranch dressing on a house salad.

Answer 3

The main forms of nouns include singular and plural forms, as well as common and proper noun forms. Nouns can also have possessive forms to indicate ownership or association with someone or something. Additionally, some nouns may have specific gender forms in languages that assign gender to nouns.