Types of nouns

Nouns can be divided into different types :

• Common nouns
• refer to general names of people, animals, things and places.
• examples : man, police, bird, glass, room
• Proper nouns
• refer to specific persons, places and things.
• The first letter of such noun is always in capital letters.
• examples : Nurul Hidayah, Barden University, Klinik Putra
• Uncountable nouns
• nouns which have only one form and take a singular verb.
• They are the material things in life which are uncountable.
• examples : water, hair, information, sugar, news, furniture
• Concrete nouns
• things that you can see, touch, hear and smell.
• They are used with the articles a, an and the.
• They can take the singular or plural form.
• examples : chair, computer, calculator, smoke, fire, salt
• Abstract nouns
• abstract in nature
• examples qualities such as love, hatred, sincerity and conditions such as poverty and sickness
• Collective nouns
• stands for a number of persons or things as a single unit.
• examples : furniture, people, crowd