Saturday 28 July 2012

Noun


A noun is the name of a person, place or thing.” This is quite helpful to a point, but as you know by now there are different kinds of noun.







proper noun, which names a specific person, place, or thing  is almost always capitalized.



exercise:







common noun is a noun referring to a person, animal, place, or thing in a general sense. Usually, you should write it with a capital letter only when it begins a sentence.






Example of  common nouns:



lets do some exercise: 


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 Uncountable nouns (also called mass nouns or non count nouns) cannot be counted, they are not separate objects. This means you cannot make them plural by adding -s, because they only have a singular form. It also means that they do not take a/an or a number in front of them.

 examples:




Countable nouns are individual objects, people, places, etc. which can be counted.

examples: 




exercise of uncountable and countable noun:







Collective nouns name groups consisting of more than one individual or entity. The group is a single unit, but it has more than one member. Examples include "family", "committee", "corporation","faculty", "army", and "school".


examples:









Concrete nouns refer to their ability to register on your five senses. If you can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel the item, it's a concrete noun.


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