NOUNS...? The first part of parts of speech in English Grammar.

NOUNS 

Is a word that is seen anything in front of us. Four kinds of nouns are there. See "classification of nouns" in this page.

CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS

There are 4 kinds of nouns. 

They are,

PROPER NOUN

COMMON NOUN

COLLECTIVE NOUN

ABSTRACT NOUN

PROPER NOUN means

Names of persons/ countries/ months/ days

(RAJU INDIA CHENNAI TAMILNADU JANUARY MONDAY)

COMMON NOUN means

Common persons, things, places, any living and non-living being.

(FATHER MOTHER SISTER TEMPLE PARK FISH SEA TEA TIGER FOREST CROW WATER MAN WOMAN SHOP ROAD RECEIPT CAR VAN DRIVER FOOD and so on...)

COLLECTIVE NOUN means

A bunch of persons/ things..

Anything that looks a mass amount.

(MILITARY GANG CROWD POLICE TEAM CATTLE UNIT SQUAD and so on...)

ABSTRACT NOUN means

Quality or status or dignity of a person or a thing or anything

Can't see or feel but recognize them.

(INVESTIGATION EXAMINATION AWARENESS PRECAUTION VELOCITY GRAVITY POSSESSEVINESS AMBITION ENEMINESS (enemy is common noun) TRUST FUND SUFFICIENCY LACKNESS BEAUTY UGLINESS SENSE KNOWLEDGE FOOLISHNESS CORRECTION and so on...)

A big stuff is there to know about nouns. We’ll discuss about it in the lesson THE CATEGORIES OF NOUNS.

THE CATEGORIES OF NOUNS 

There are three categories on which a noun can function. 

A. Simple noun

B. Noun phrase

C. Noun clause. 

A. Simple noun. 

Any noun being a single word is called simple noun. 

HOUSE, MAN, PETER, RIVER, SKY, CROWD, DENSITY etc. 

B. Noun phrase. 

A noun with phrasal information is called noun phrase. 

SOME OF THE BOYS, THE HEAT OF THE SUN, SHYAMALA'S DRESS, LIVING STYLE OF PEOPLE OF INDIA etc. 

C. Noun clause. 

A sentence that can be a noun as a subordinate clause and supporting a main clause in complex sentence is known as Noun clause. 

(Capitalised is noun clause) 

"I don't understand WHAT YOU ARE SAYING."

"May I know WHAT YOUR NAME IS?" 

'WHAT WE OFFER AS A COMPLEMENT WITH THE PRODUCT is too under warranty?"

(Noun clause is always connected with main clause using a relative pronoun like WHAT, WHICH etc.)

AUTHOR: MAHENDIRAN V