NOUNS

NOUNS

 is a word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea. In a sentence, nouns can play the role of subject, direct object, indirect object, subject complement, object complement, appositive, or adjective.

Nouns can name a person/ a place/things:

• Albert Einstein

  the president

  my mother

  a girl

• Mount Vesuvius

  Disneyland

  my bedroom

• shoe

  faucet

  freedom

  The Elder Wand

A PROPER NOUN is a specific name of a person, place, or thing, and is always capitalized.

• Does Tina have much homework to do this evening?

• I would like to visit Old Faithful.

COMMON NOUN

•  .are naming words that are common to people, places, things and animals etc. Source: theidioms.com

• For example boy, girl, doctor, town, city, dog, car and so on. Source: theidioms.com

Collective Noun

• are used to name a group of persons, places, animals or things. Source: theidioms.com

• For examples: a library of books, a team of players and a family of four. Source: theidioms.com

Compound Noun 

• nouns are formed by joining two nouns together

• Examples: notebook, firefly and keyboard, x-ray, co-pilot and mother-in-law. post office, history book, mineral water

Countable Noun

• can be counted

• I saw two owls sitting on the tree.

• There are four milk bottles in the fridge

Uncountable Noun

• cannot be counted

• Uncountable nouns also known as 'mass noun.