Noun

The noun is a word that is the name of a thing, an idea, a place or a person.

Types of nouns

Nouns form a substantial proportion of English vocabulary, and they come in a wide variety of types. Nouns can name a person, Like:

• Neil Armstrong
• The chairman
• My sister
• A Boy
  
  

Nouns can also name a place:

• Tajmahal
• Disneyland
• My Kitchen
  
  

Nouns can also name things, although sometimes immaterial things, such as concepts, activities, or processes. Some might even be hypothetical or imaginary things.

• Clothes 
• Freedom
• Basketball
  
  

Proper nouns vs. common nouns

One crucial difference to be made is whether a noun is a proper noun or a common noun. A proper noun is a particular name of a person, place, or thing and is always obtained. 

Does Rama have many studies to do this evening?

• Rama is the name of a specific person.

The reverse of a proper noun is a common noun, sometimes known as a generic noun. A common noun is the generic name of an object in a set or collection and is not obtained unless seeming at the start of a sentence or in a title.

• The boy crossed the river.

Boy is a common noun; we do not learn the boy's identity by reading this sentence, though we know the action he takes. The river is also a common noun in this sentence.

Types of common nouns

-> Common or generic nouns can be split into three subtypes: concrete nouns, abstract nouns, and collective nouns. A concrete noun is something that is seen by the thoughts, something that is physical or real.

• This cake tastes good.
  
  

The tastes are real things that can be sensed. 

-> An abstract noun is something that the senses cannot observe. 

• We can’t presume the courage it needed to do that.
  
  

Courage is an abstract noun. Courage can’t be seen, heard, or sensed in any other way, but we know it exists.

-> A collective noun means a group or collection of people or things.

• That number of lies is disreputable.
  
  

The number of lies as practised here is a collective noun. Collective nouns take a single verb as if they are one entity – in this case, the singular verb is.

• A pride of lions walked the savanna.
  
  

Here, pride of lions is also a collective noun.