The Noun
by Татьяна Нестерина
1. Common Nouns Ex: an author a city a language
2. Proper Nouns Ex: Leo Tolstoy Paris Neptune
3. Type of Nomination
4. The Common Gender Ex: a bird an artist a musician
5. Uncountable Nouns Ex: information rice water money
6. Plural Ex: cats dogs books
7. Singular Ex: a cat a dog a book
8. Countable Nouns
9. Number
10. Non-person Nouns Ex: a pencil a star a book
11. Masculine Nouns Ex: a boy a butler a footman a father a brother
12. Feminine Nouns Ex: a girl a waitress an aunt
13. Person Nouns
14. Gender
15. Abstract Nouns Ex: Higher education
16. Concrete Nouns Ex: What is that noise? (noise)
17. Type of Notion
18. Non-Human Nouns Ex: a cat a dog
19. Human Nouns Ex: a man a woman
20. Personal Quality
21. Inanimate Nouns Ex: a table a bed a book
22. Animate Nouns Ex: a person a human a daughter
23. Form of existence
24. Genitive of authorship Ex: my aunt's letter John's words
25. Descriptive genitive Ex: children's book
26. Equatorial genitive Ex: a mile's distance
27. Adverbial genitive Ex: two hours' work a month's leave a week's absence
28. Objective genitive Ex: Sam's surprise
29. Subjective genitive Ex: the doctor's advice
30. Possessive genitive Ex: John's car the bird's nest my friend's room
31. Absolute Generalisation Ex: New information should be gathered on this subject (some information)
32. Relative Generalisation Ex: A train hooted (some train)
33. Non-identification (a; - )
34. Identification (the) Ex: The train hooted (that train)
35. Article Determination
36. Common Case Ex: a cat a house
37. Possessive Case
38. Case
39. Absolute Singular Nouns Ex: love peace chemistry snow fruit furniture
40. Absolute Plural Nouns Ex: trousers jeans clothes police