Noun

Noun

A noun is a word or word group that is used to name a person, a place, a thing, an idea or an activity.

Person	Place	Thing	Idea/Activity
Doctor	Zoo	Chair	Sincerity
Chef	Hotel	Pencil	Kindness
Farmer	Food Court	Bicycle	Running
Priya	Gym	Doll	Exercise
John	Lake	rock	Beauty

Kinds of Noun

Common Noun and Proper Noun

Common Noun-

A common noun is the name given in common to any person, place or thing of the same class or kind.

Examples:

     1)   A girl is skipping the rope.

     2)   Dog is a faithful animal.

     3)   He wishes to work for the country.

Proper Noun-

A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing. In written English, proper nouns begin with letters.

Examples-

    1)   Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan.

    2)   Mt. Everest is in Nepal.

    3)   Pooja is my best friend.

    4)   I am going to London next week.

Concrete Noun and Abstract Noun

Concrete Noun-

A concrete noun refers to the name of a person, place or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses.

Example-

     1)   I need to paste a photograph of my family in my Hindi book.

     2)   The carpenter made a chair.

Abstract Noun-

An abstract noun refers to ideas, feelings, qualities, characteristics and conditions that cannot be seen or touched and things which have no physical reality.

Example-

     1)   Honesty is the greatest virtue.

     2)   Kindness is always rewarded.

     3)   Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder.

     4)   Being with friends is always fun.

     5)   They fought for freedom.

Countable Noun and Uncountable Noun

Nouns can either be countable or uncountable.

Countable Noun -

Countable nouns refer to something that can be counted. They have both singular and plural forms.

For example- dog/dogs, man/men, mountain/mountains

Uncountable Noun

Uncountable nouns do not typically refer to things that can be counted. They do not regularly have a plural form.

For example- chocolate, ketchup, tea, water

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Material Noun-

A material Noun is the name of matter or substance of which things are made.

Example-

     1)   Mom gifted me a gold bracelet.

     2)   The main gate of my house is made up of iron.

     3)   I prefer the chair of wood over plastic.

     4)   Brass is useful metal.

Collective Noun-

A collective noun is the name given to a group of persons or things considered as one.

Examples:

     1)   herd of animals

     2)   army of soldiers

     3)   swarm of bees

     4)   murder of crows

     5)   bunch of flowers

Collective nouns usually take a singular verb, because they are singular in construction, but they sometimes take a plural verb.

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Exercise

Identify if the word in blue is a proper or common noun.

     1)   Let have lunch at Pizza Hut.

     Proper Noun

     2)   There are seven days in a week.

     Common Noun

     3)   My favourite movie is Finding Namo.

     Common Noun

     4)   My aunt lives in Delhi.

     Common Noun

     5)   My aunt is coming to meet us on Sunday.

     Proper Noun

Pick out the Nouns in these sentences and tell their kind.

     1)   A zoo is a place where animals are kept.

     Zoo – Collective Noun

     Animal- Common Noun

     2)   Arjun is a good batsman.

     Arjun- Proper Noun

     Batsman- Common Noun

     3)   Flowers smell sweet.

     Flowers- Common Noun

     Sweet – Abstract Noun

     4)   The carpenter made a stool.

     Carpenter- Common Noun

     Stool- Common / Concrete Noun

     5)   Truth is evergreen.

     Truth- Abstract Noun

     Evergreen- Abstract Noun

Fill in the blanks with the words given in bracket.

(zoo, flock, Shimla, shirt, bunch)

     1)   I saw a flock of birds.

     2)   She lost her bunch of keys.

     3)   This shirt is made of cotton.

     4)   Shimla is the capital of Himachal Pradesh.

     5)   A zoo is a place where animals are kept.

(Parts of Speech)

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