NOUNS
Nouns refer to a name of a
persons, animals, places, things, ideas, or events, etc.
Nouns encompass most of the
words of a language. It is also known as “Subject” in a sentence.
Noun can be a/an -
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PERSONS: a name
for a person - Aravind,
Kalaivani, Shaker, Gowtham, Chandra,
etc.
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ANIMALS: a name
for an animal - dog, cat, cow, kangaroo,
etc.
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BIRDS : a name of a bird - Eagle, Sparrow, Vulture, etc
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TREES : a name of a Tree - Coconut tree, Mango tree, Neem tree,
etc…
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PLACES : a name for a place - London, Australia, Canada, Mumbai,
etc.
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THINGS : a name for a thing - bat, ball, chair, door, house,
computer, etc.
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IDEAS : A name for an idea - devotion, superstition, happiness,
excitement, etc.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS:
Proper Noun, Common
Noun, Collective Noun, Material noun, Abstract Noun, Concrete noun, Countable
Noun, Uncountable Noun, Compound Noun.
1 PROPER NOUNS:
A proper noun is a name
which refers only to a single person, place, or thing and there is no common
name for it. In written English, a proper noun always begins with capital
letters.
EG: Kumar, Aarthi, Tiger,
Neem tree, Mango, Table, Jasmine etc…
2 COMMON NOUNS:
A common noun is a name for
something which is non specific for many things, person, or places. In other
words, a common noun is a word that indicates a person, place, thing, etc In
general where as a proper noun is a specific one of those.
EG: Country, City, Trees,
Flowers, Fruit, Boy, Girl, etc…
We have provided below the
list of common nouns under various categories such as:
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PEOPLE : brother, sister, mother, father, child,
toddler, baby, teenager, grandfather, grandmother, writer, student, philosopher, teacher,
minister, president, businessperson, photographer, salesclerk, woman, man, person, driver,
officer, doctor, engineer, principal, peon, labor, nurse,
shopkeeper, gatekeeper, sweeper, salesman, friend, boy, girl, madam, sir, etc…
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PLACES : country, city, town, village, state,
building, continent, shop, restaurant, hotel, school, park, coffee shop, zoo, water park, mall, house,
college, laboratory, library, classroom, temple , Railway
station, Bank, etc.
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IDEAS : happy, sad, love, respect, honor, hate,
patriotism, pride, etc.
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ANIMALS: cow,
buffalo, lion, tiger, dear, fish, bear, dog, goat, cat, tortoise, alligator,
bird, wolf, snake, frog, horse, ant, donkey, etc.
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THINGS : chair, table, truck, book, pencil, eraser,
box, iPod, iPhone, computer, coat, boots, TV, remote, bed, fan, coaster, camera, mobile,
etc.
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FRUITS AND
VEGETABLES: grapes, apple, guava, peach, fig, banana, apricot, lettuce,
broccoli, celery, carrot, spinach, cabbage, etc.
3 COLLECTIVE NOUNS:
A collective noun is a word
for a group of things, people, or animals, etc.
EG: a Flock of birds,
Committee, a board of members, Bouquet of flowers, Herd of sheep etc…
Collective nouns can be both
plural and singular. However, Americans prefer to use collective nouns as
singular, but both of the uses are correct in other parts of the world.
We have listed here
collective nouns in the categorized form to be used for people, animals, birds,
places, things, etc.
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COLLECTIVE NOUNS
USED FOR PEOPLE:
A
class of students, a crew of sailors, a choir of singers, an army of soldiers,
a band of musicians, a gang of thieves, a group of dancers, a staff of
employees, a team of players, a bunch of crooks, a crowd of people or
spectators, a troupe of artists or dancers, a pack of thieves, a regiment of
soldiers, a panel of experts, a board of directors, an audience of listeners, a
tribe of natives, a gang of laborers, a flock of tourists, etc.
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COLLECTIVE NOUNS
USED FOR ANIMALS:
A
catch of fish, a flock of birds, a flight of birds, an army of ants, a haul of
fish, a flock of sheep, a herd of any animal (like deer, cattle, goats,
elephants, buffaloes, horse, etc), a hive of bees, a team of horses, a troop of
lions, a zoo of wild animals, a pack of wolves, a litter of cubs, a host of
sparrows, a kennel of dogs, a murder of crows, a team of ducks, a team of oxen,
a litter of puppies or kittens, a swarm of bees (or ants, rats, flies, etc), a
pack of hounds, herd of antelope, colony of ants, shrewdness of apes, tribe of
baboons, flange of baboons, congress of baboons, culture of bacteria, cede of
badgers, colony of badgers, sloth of bears, sleuth of bears, pack of bears (or
polar bears), grist of bees, colony of beavers, lodge of beavers, flight of
bees or insects, congregation of birds, Valery of birds, sedge of bitterns,
herd of boar, chain of bobolinks, brace or clash of bucks, rabble of
butterflies, wake of buzzards, army of caterpillars, (Clutter, pounce, glaring,
doubt, nuisance, etc) of cats, drove of cattle, brood of chickens, flock of
chickens, congregation of crocodiles, float of crocodiles, litter of dogs,
kennel of dogs, pack of dogs, pod of dolphins, convocation of eagles, colony or
knot of frogs, bury of rabbits, and so many.
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COLLECTIVE NOUNS
FOR THINGS:
A
string of pearls, a library of books, a chest of drawers, a pack of cards, a
bunch of keys, a group of islands, a wad of notes, a galaxy of stars, a stack
of wood, a fleet of ships, an album of stamps (or autographs, photographs,
etc), a hedge of bushes, a basket of fruit, a bowl of rice, a pair of shoes, a
pack of lies, a range of mountains, a cloud of dust, a bouquet of flowers, a
bunch of flowers, a pack of lies, a forest of trees, a bunch of grapes, Cache
of jewels, a pair of shoes, a wad of notes, anthology of poems, constellation
of satellites, fagot of sticks, hover of helicopters, etc.
4 MATERIAL NOUNS:
A material noun is the exact
opposite of abstract noun. It refers to the things we see and have physical
existence and shows the material which it made up of.
EG: Plastic chair, wooden
table, Gold chain, plastic ball, Silver medal, etc.
We have listed the material
nouns from various things.
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MATERIAL NOUNS
FROM NATURE : water, air, silver,
gold, iron, copper, sand, coal, rock, sunlight, rain, earth, salt, etc.
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MATERIAL NOUNS
FROM ANIMALS : egg, meat, honey, milk,
silk, leather, wool, etc.
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MATERIAL NOUNS
FROM PLANTS : cotton, food, oil,
wood, jute, coffee, medicine, tea, rubber, perfume, etc.
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MAN MADE MATERIAL
NOUNS : acid, alcohol, asphalt, brick,
cement, butter, chalk, ghee, cheese, Dacron, ebony, enamel, felt, gelatin,
paraffin, cloth, Plastic, etc.
5 ABSTRACT NOUNS:
An abstract noun is a word
for something that cannot be seen but is there. It has no physical existence.
Generally, it refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions.
EG: Belief, Truth, lies,
happiness, sorrow, time, friendship, humor, patriotism, etc.
We have provided below
various examples of common abstract nouns under different categories such as:
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ABSTRACT NOUNS
SHOWING EMOTIONS OR FEELINGS:
Adoration,
amazement, apprehension, clarity, anger, anxiety, delight, disbelief,
excitement, fascination, despair, disappointment, friendship, grief, hate,
happiness, helpfulness, misery, love, joy, pleasure, helplessness, infatuation,
pain, power, relaxation, pride, satisfaction, romance, sorrow, silliness,
relief, sadness, tiredness, weariness, worry, strength, surprise, peace,
sympathy, wariness, uncertainty, etc.
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ABSTRACT NOUNS
SHOWING HUMAN QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS:
Beauty,
evil, ego, envy, elegance, enthusiasm, bravery, calm, coldness, courage,
charity, curiosity, dedication, brilliance, brutality, compassion,
determination, contentment, confidence, fear, honesty, generosity, honor, goodness,
graciousness, hatred, humor, humility, hope, insanity, jealousy, loyalty,
kindness, maturity, integrity, intelligence, patience, perseverance, tolerance,
sophistication, sensitivity, sympathy, stupidity, sanity, self-control,
success, deceit, skill, beauty, pain, brilliance, misery, talent, weakness,
warmth, wisdom, trust, wit, etc.
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ABSTRACT NOUNS
SHOWING MOVEMENTS OR EVENTS:
Progress,
trouble, education, friendship, leisure, hospitality, relaxation, etc.
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OTHER EXAMPLES OF
ABSTRACT NOUNS:
Communication,
ability, awe, chaos, adventure, artistry, belief, comfort, consideration,
death, defeat, crime, culture, customer service, deceit, democracy, dexterity,
dreams, disquiet, disturbance, dictatorship, energy, failure, faithfulness,
faithlessness, enhancement, faith, frailty, fragility, forgiveness, favoritism,
hearsay, grace, freedom, gossip, hurt, homelessness, idea, impression,
imagination, idiosyncrasy, improvement, information, inflation, justice,
knowledge, laughter, luxury, law, liberty, luck, loss, motivation, life,
movement, memory, mercy, need, parenthood, patriotism, opportunism, opinion,
omen, opportunity, peace, principle, poverty, peculiarity, reality, redemption,
refreshment, slavery, shock, riches, service, rumor, skill, sleep, sparkle,
speculation, speed, thought, submission, strictness, success, unemployment,
thrill, truth, unreality, wealth, victory, etc.
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CONCRETE NOUNS:
Concrete noun is a noun which we can feel through our five
senses such as smell, sight, hearing, touch and taste. Objects and substances
which we cannot feel (see, hear, taste, touch, or smell) through our sense
organs are not concrete nouns.
Majority of nouns become concrete nouns as we can feel
them (such as all animals and people) through our sense organs. Concrete nouns
can be of any type such as common nouns, countable nouns, proper nouns,
uncountable nouns, collective nouns, etc.
EG: Pencil, computer, table, tree, rain, cookies, car,
etc.
Here we have listed concrete nouns under various
categories such as people, place, animals, objects, etc.
•PEOPLE :
scientist, dentist, doctor, firefighter, teacher, man, businessman, Rita, etc.
•ANIMALS : bear, deer, fish, dog, cat, gorilla, cow,
buffalo, puppy, lion tiger, etc.
•PLACES :
Delhi, island, Varanasi, Lucknow, school, park, market, mountain, Turkey, etc.
•OBJECTS :
biscuit, cake, pencil, fruit, lock, keys, eraser, coffee cup, mobile, pizza,
table, chair, ET
7 COUNTABLE NOUNS:
The nouns that can be counted
are called countable nouns. It can take the articles: a, an, the.
EG: Chair, table, bat, ball,
etc. (you can say 1 chair, 2 chairs, 3 chairs – so chairs are countable)
These countable nouns can be classified as singular
and plural nouns
I SINGULAR NOUN -
Refer to one person, place things, or idea
EG: Cat, dog, ship, monkey,
hero etc…
II PLURAL NOUN -
Refer to more than one person, place,
things, or idea
EG: Dogs, cats, ships,
babies etc..
8 UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS:
The nouns that cannot be
counted are called non-countable nouns.
EG: Water, Milk, sugar, oil,
salt, etc. (you cannot say “1 water, 2 water,” because water is not countable)
Following are the
categorized examples of uncountable noun:
•SUBJECTS : Hindi, French, English, chemistry, economics,
mathematics, science, History, etc.
•LIQUIDS AND GASES: milk,
water, coffee, tea, air, oxygen, etc.
•SOLID AND GRANULAR
SUBSTANCES : sand, wood, rice, metal, cheese, sugar,
etc.
•INFORMATION AND ABSTRACT
CONCEPTS: advice, information, education, intelligence, democracy, etc.
•ENERGY WORDS AND FORCES : electricity, heat, sunshine, radiation,
magnetic
9 COMPOUND NOUNS:
Sometimes two or three nouns
appear together, or even with other parts of speech, and create idiomatic
compound nouns. Idiomatic means that those nouns behave as a unit and, to a
lesser or greater degree, amount to more than the sum of their parts.
Example: School bus,
Waterfalls, Swimming pool, son-in-law, snowball, mailbox, etc.
FUNCTIONS OF NOUNS:
Nouns can be used as a
subject, a direct object, and an indirect object of a verb; as an object of a
preposition; and as an adverb or adjective in sentences. Nouns can also show
possession.
SUBJECT :
The Company is doing great. Roses are the flowers of love.
DIRECT OBJECT :
I finally bought a new mobile.
INDIRECT OBJECT :
Max gave Carol another chocolate.
ADVERB :
The train leaves today.
ADJECTIVE :
The office building faces the mall.
POSSESSION :
The lion’s cage is dangerous. My brother’s daughter is adorable.
OBJECT OF PREPOSITION: Roses are the flowers of love.