The Noun-Basic Grammar

The Noun-Basic Grammar

The Noun-Basic Grammar
A noun is the name of a person , place or thing,quality,action,etc.
e.g,
Rainbow,Tokyo,students,Mars,honesty,protest.
There is table for good understanding.

Person	Place	Things	Ideas
Father	The Royal Place	Toyota	determination
Sohrab	Restaurant	Book	Ability
Manager	Mosque	cement	Unity

Five Kinds of Nouns

1.Proper noun

It is the name of a particular person,place or thing.

e.g,

Multan,Asia,Iceland,Mars,Suzuki etc.

2.Common Noun

It is a name which is common to any person,place or thing of the same kind.

e.g,

Village,boy,car,country,theatre,tree,ocean,platform,market or bazaar.

city-cities,village-villages, etc,

some do not have plurals : Sheep-sheep, deer-deer.

Note: Some have one meanings in the singular and another meaning in the plural.

e.g,

fish-fishes, Fishes=kinds of fish.

Today we caught the best fishes in the sea.

There is table for good understanding.

	Common Noun	Proper Noun	Common Noun	Proper Noun
Persons	Poet	Ghalib	inventor	Instien
Places	Country	Russia	Statue	The statue of lanin
Things	Newspaper	Dawn	Tv Channel	BBC News
Ideas	Religion	Islam	Airline	PIA

 3.Collective or Group Noun

It is the name of a number of things or animals or persons taken together.It is used as a common noun.

e.g,

Team, army, nation, class, bundle, crowd, fleet etc,

4.Material Noun

It is the name of a material of which things are made.

e.g,

silver, iron, wood,flour, milk, cement, water, butter, medicines (all those which we use in daily life)

5.Abstract Noun

It is the name of quality, condition or action which cannot be seen or felt through the five senses (or which can be imagined or thought of).

e.g,

foolishness,wisdom,understanding,strength,weakness,childhood,quickness,slowness etc,

(Most of the material and abstract nouns are uncountables, whose plural cannot be had, Uncountable nouns are also calles mass nouns.)

Also Note that: There are material nouns like "Glass" and "Iron". which can be common nouns (glasses for drinking water in; iron for ironing clothes with).Abstract nouns like "reality", "fact". advantage" and "indecency" are countables like common nouns.

• The reality of the situation, the fact of the case, the idiocies of the leader, the hopes of the people.

Group(collective)nouns can be take singular or plural verbs and pronouns:

The committee has it meetings daily. That is, the committee as a whole).

The committee have written the reports.(that is, the members of the committee separately).

The jury sits in the room next to the court room.(as a whole).

The jury are sure of their opinions on the case of honour killing before them.(the members separtely).

Compound Nouns:

A compound noun is made up of two or more words.Compound nouns are written as a single words,Separate words  or words separated by hyphens.

	Compound Nouns
Single words	Heartbeat, moonshine, mountaintop,
Separate words	Zero hour, carbon paper, subject matter
hyphens	Trouble-maker, one piece, short-sighted

Countable & Uncountable Nouns

1. Nouns whose plural we can have are countable nouns or countables.

e.g,

Most common nouns (like tree, friend) and collective nouns (like team, class, army) are of this kind.

2.Nouns whose plural we can't have are uncountables or uncountable nouns.

e.g,

Most material nouns ( like zinc, blood,sugar) and abstract nouns ( like anger, peace,simplicity) are of this kinds.