NounsOrigin: The English word noun comes from the Latin nōmen, meaning "name" or "noun". Word classes like nouns were first described by Pāṇini in the Sanskrit language and by Ancient Greek grammarians, and were defined by the grammatical forms that they take.
Definition: Noun is a word which is used to name something as a person, animal, thing and place. There are six kinds of noun in English. Types
Proper Nouns: Definition: Proper Noun is a name of particular thing, person, animal and place. On the other hand, proper noun is always written with a capital letter at the beginning of the word. Example: Dara, New York, Cambodia, John, Angkor Wat… Common Nouns: Common nouns refer to general, unspecific categories of entities. the word state itself is a common noun because it can refer to any of the 50 states in the United States. |
DEFINITION:
1) 2) COMMON NOUN DEFINITION: Common Noun is a name which is given in common to everyone (person, thing, animal…..). Example: Man, teacher, doctor, dog, cat, house, chair… 3) ABSTRACTIVE NOUN DEFINITION: Abstractive Noun is the name of idea, quality and action that is the name of something we can’t touch, see, smell and taste. Example: - Idea: Advice, ambition, wish... - Quality: Goodness, kindness, darkness... - Action: Talking, movement, discussion.. NOTE: Some Abstractive Nouns can make from many kinds of adjective, verb and common noun. a) Abstractive Noun makes from adjective. Adjective Abstractive Noun dark poor wise honest darkness poverty wisdom honesty b) Abstractive Noun makes from verb. Verb Abstractive Noun hope regret help promise hope regret help promise c) Abstractive Noun is quite different from verb. Verb Abstractive Noun live die know advise life death knowledge advice Verb Abstractive Noun d) Abstractive Noun makes from common noun. Common Noun Abstractive Noun man friend hero infant manhood friendship heroism infancy 4) COLLECTIVE NOUN DEFINITION: Collective Noun is a name of number or collection of person, thing and animal taken together and spoken as a whole. Example: Army, committee, family, nation, association, community… 5) COMPOUND NOUN DEFINITION: Compound Nouns are the nouns that are combined between one word with another word and can make from many kinds of noun, adjective and verb. Noun/ Adjective/verb Noun Common Noun sun strong walking light man stick sunlight strongman walking-stick 6) MATERIAL NOUN DEFINITION: Material Noun is the name of particular object. Example: Chair, table, car, book, pen, house, radio… |