NOUN AND ITS KINDS

 

NOUN GENDER:

1. Masculine gender: 

• A noun is said to be in the Masculine gender if it refers to a male character or member of a species. 
• Man, lion, hero, boy, king, horse and actor are nouns of masculine gender.

2. Feminine gender: 

• A noun is said to be in the feminine gender if it refers to a female member of a species. 
• Woman, lioness, heroine, girl, mare, niece, empress, cow and actress are few of the feminine-gender nouns that we use.

3. Common gender: 

• A noun is said to be in Common gender if it refers to a member of species which can be a male or a female. 
• Child, student, friend, applicant, candidate, servant, member, parliamentarian and leader are few of the common-gender nouns. 

4. Neuter gender: 

• Normally nouns referring to lifeless objects are in neuter nouns. 
• Chair, table, tree, star, mountain, street, book, car, school, paper, pencil and computer are few of the neuter nouns which We use regularly. 

NOUN NUMBER:

• Singular number is used when the noun refers to one item. 
• Plural number is used when the noun refers to more than one item. 
• Countable nouns have both singular and plural forms. 
• Uncountable nouns and mass nouns do not normally have a plural.

PROPER AND COMMON NOUNS:

You always write a proper noun with a capital letter, since the noun represents the name of a specific person, place, or thing. The names of days of the week, months, historical documents, institutions, organisations, religions, their holy texts are proper nouns. A proper noun is the opposite of a common noun.

Acommon noun is a noun referring to a person, place, or thing in a general sense -- usually, you should write it with a capital letter only when it begins a sentence. A common noun is the opposite of a proper noun.

CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT NOUN:

A concrete noun is a noun which names anything (or anyone) that you can perceive through your physical senses: touch, sight, taste, hearing, or smell. 

• The judge handed the files to the clerk.
• An abstract noun is a noun which names anything which you can not perceive through your five physical senses. 
• Tommy is amused by people who are nostalgic about childhood.
• Justice often seems to slip out of our grasp.

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS:

• A countable noun (or count noun) is a noun with both a singular and a plural form, and it names anything (or anyone) that you can count.  e.g: We painted the table red and the chairs blue. 

• A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count. A non-countable noun always takes a singular verb in a sentence. Non-countable nouns are similar to collective nouns. e.g: Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen.

COLLECTIVE NOUNS:

• A collective noun is a noun naming a group of things, animals, or persons. 
• The flock of geese spends most of its time in the pasture.