Types of nouns

Types of nouns

What is a noun?

nouns are names of things, places or names.

Types of nouns

• proper nouns

• Common noun

• Collective noun

• material noun

• Abstract noun

• Concrete noun

Proper noun

A proper noun is a name of something specific.

Common noun

A common noun is a name of something unspecified.

Collective noun

A collective noun is a name of a group of similar things.

Material noun

A material noun is a name of things that can be made into another things.

Abstract noun

An abstract noun is a name of something we can’t touch.

concrete noun

A concrete noun comes from abstract noun, it is a name of things we can touch.