What is Noun ?
Noun refers to any naming word. It is a word that refers a person , animal , place, thing , concept , group etc.
Example – Himalaya is a large mountain 🏔️ .
Here Himalaya is noun.
I like children .
Here children is noun .
Types of Noun –
There are several types of Noun –
1 . Proper Noun – It refers the names of specific people, animals, thing, place or concept . The first letter of a Proper noun is always a capital letter.
Example – Rohit lives in Delhi .
Here Rohit and Delhi both are Proper nouns , they are referring specific people and place respectively.
Exception – Seasons’ name are exception to the rule of Proper noun , where we don’t use capital letter at the beginning.
Example – l like autumn .
2. Common Noun – It refers to a class of people, thing, place or concept but never specify someone or something.
Example – city 🏙️, country , children, etc.
3. Concrete Noun – It refers to physical objects or things or individual which we can see and have physical existence.
Example – Chair 🪑, bat 🏓, banana 🍌,book 📖 ,etc.
4. Abstract Noun – It refers to idea, feelings, concepts, processes and can’t be physically touched or seen .
Example – justice ⚖️ , happyness , etc.
5. Collective Noun – It refers to a group of people or things together.
Example – batch , team
6. Countable Noun – These refers to nouns which can be counted .
Example – table , pen 🖊️, book 📚, pencil ✏️ , etc.
There is a table in my study room .
There are five books in my bag .
Here we can count the number of the table and books . So they are Countable noun.
7. Uncountable Noun – These refers to nouns which can’t be counted .
Example – water 🌊 , oil , salt 🧂, sugar , etc .
8. Singular Noun – These are the nouns, singular in number .
Example – Man , Woman , Cat 😺, Dog 🐕 ,Fish 🐟 , etc
Sentence – They have a pet dog .
9. Plural Noun – These are plural form of singular nouns .
Example – Men , Women , Cats , Dogs , Fishes , etc.
Sentence – There are many cats in their house .
10. Material Noun – These nouns refer to substances made of tangible material .
Example – gold 🪙, coal , iron 🧇 , etc.
She has a passion for buying gold .
11. Possessive Noun – These are the nouns followed by apostrophe (‘) s and it indicates the possession. In case of plural noun ends with ‘ s ‘ , we need to add just apostrophe (‘) after the the ‘ s ‘ .
Example – He lives in his father’s house 🏠.
12. Attributive Noun – These are the nouns act like adjectives to modify other nouns .
Example – He like ginger tea ☕ .
Here ginger is a noun which is acting like an adjective to modify tea .
13. Appositive Noun – It comes after another noun to provide additional information about it . If it gives necessary information then no other punctuation is used between this two noun but if it gives extra information which is not necessary, we use commas .
Example – My friend Susan has a great voice .
His laptop , an MacBook, is really great. 💻
Here Susan and MacBook used as Appositive noun .
14. Gerunds / Verbal Noun – When a noun is identical to the present participle of a verb , it is called gerunds.
Example – Writing is my hobby . 🖋️
Driving is his passion. 🚗
Here Writing and Driving are gerunds because they are acting as noun but identical to present participle form of verbs write and drive .
15 . Regular Noun – These are the nouns , don’t change in spelling when changed to plural forms . Only regular plural suffixes are attached to make plural ( like s , es , etc . )
Example – Cat – Cats , Dog – Dogs , Mango 🥭 – Mangoes , Fly – Flies
16. Irregular Noun – These are the nouns, change in spelling when transformed to plural forms from singular forms .
Example – Man – Men , Tooth – Teeth
Here noun ‘ Father ‘ is subject .
2 . Object –
Direct object – He has a new laptop 💻.
Here ‘ laptop ‘ is direct object.
Indirect object – I gave my brother a new pen .
Here ‘ brother ‘ is an indirect object.
3. Possession – My daughter’s car is very nice .
Here ‘ daughter’s ‘ used to indicate possession .
4. As Adverb – Noun can be used as adverb also .
Example – They are going to perform today .
Here today is acting as adverb .
5. As Adjective –
Example – The tea garden is very beautiful.
The school building is very large .
Here tea and school are acting as adjective.
6. Object of Preposition –
Example – White is the colour of peace .
Here the noun peace is acting as object of preposition.
