Used to specify the name of a person, place, idea, animal, quality, or thing. Nouns function as the subject or object of the sentence. Most sentences have a noun. Nouns frequently come after adjectives, or a determiner.
- Abstract nouns: cannot be touched, smelled, seen, felt, and/or tasted
freedom, happiness, power, education
- Collective nouns: a group of something
bee - swarm, ants - colony, player - team, student - class
- Common nouns: general, unspecific categories
city, country, states, woman, boy.
- Compound nouns: a noun that contains two or more words
toothpaste, post office
- Concrete nouns: can be touched, smelled, seen, felt, and/or tasted
meat, Mary, sugar, wood
- Countable nouns: can be single or plural, can be modified for numerals, can have determiners. Nouns that are countable and singular must have a determiner
a car, 9 cars, many cars, a chocolate, one chocolate, many chocolates
- Material nouns: materials and substances that things are made of
wood, cotton, wheat
- Proper nouns: specific places, person, thing; the first letter must be capitalized
San Diego, Brazil, California, Mary, John.
- Pronouns: used to substitute a noun.
I, she, it, mine, myself
- Uncountable nouns: only singular, no numbers, can co-occur with determiners.
wood, water, rice, wine, furniture
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