Classifications of Nouns
Classifications
of Nouns
1. Proper Nouns
Proper nouns are nouns that refer
to specific entities.
Example: Nebraska, Steve, Harvard, or White House
2. Common Nouns
Common nouns refer to general,
unspecific categories of entities.
Example: Car, man, bridge, town,
water, metal, ammonia
3. Countable Nouns
To linguists, these count nouns
can occur in both single and plural forms, can be modified by numerals, and can
co-occur with quantificational determiners like many, most, more, several,
etc.
Example: Bike ( a bike, six
bikes, several bikes), book, pencil, people, tree,
4. Uncountable
Nouns or Mass Nouns
Conversely, some nouns are not
countable and are called uncountable nouns or mass nouns. Substances, liquids,
and powders are entities that are often signified by mass nouns.
Example: Clutter, sand, water, flour, milk, air, furniture, freedom,
rice, intelligent
5. Collective
Nouns
In general, collective nouns are
nouns that refer to a group of something in a specific manner. Often,
collective nouns are used to refer to groups of animals. Consider the following
sentences.
Example: The gaggle of geese, herds of wild, a bevy of swans, a colony
of ants,
6. Concrete Nouns
Concrete nouns are nouns that can
be touched, smelled, seen, felt, or tasted. Concrete nouns can be perceived by
at least one of our senses.
Example: Steak, table, dog, Maria, salt, wool
7. Abstract Nouns
More ethereal, theoretical
concepts use abstract nouns to refer to them. The abstract nouns refer to
concepts, ideas, philosophies, and other entities that cannot be concretely
perceived.
Example:
Freedom, love, power, redemption, hate
8. Pronouns
Personal pronouns are types of
nouns that take the place of nouns when referring to people, places or things.
The personal pronouns in English are I, you, he, she, it, and they.
9. Compound Nouns
Compound nouns
are nouns made up of two or more words. Some compound nouns are hyphenated.
Some are not, and some combine their words to form a single word.
Examples: Mother-in-law,
board of members, court-martial, forget-me-not, manservant, pickpocket,
paper-clip
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