Nouns
par Svetozara Cherkezova
1. Possessive Nouns
1.1. Possessive Nouns are nouns which possess something, normally another noun
1.1.1. Goddess's Beauty
1.1.2. American's ideals
2. Concrete Nouns
2.1. A concrete noun is identified through one of the five senses
2.1.1. hear:whistling
2.1.2. taste:steak
3. Proper Nouns
3.1. Proper nouns are the names of specific people or places. They should always begin with a capital.
3.1.1. Paris
3.1.2. London
4. Countable/Uncountable Nouns
4.1. Countable nouns are for things we can count,using numbers.They have a singular and plural form.
4.1.1. Dog/Dogs
4.2. Uncountable nouns are for things that we cannot count with numbers.They don't have a plural form.
4.2.1. Money
5. Common Nouns
5.1. Common nouns are words for people, places or things that are not specific.(as opposed to a proper noun, which refers to only one person, place or thing.)
5.1.1. baseball player
5.1.2. newspaper
6. Irregular Nouns
6.1. don't follow a spelling pattern when pluralized
6.1.1. child/children
6.1.2. mouse/mice
7. Abstract Nouns
7.1. cannot be identified using one of the five senses(taste, touch,sight,hearing,smelling
7.1.1. courage
7.1.2. confidence
8. Generic Nouns
8.1. Nouns that are a part of a generic statement
8.1.1. Cats are animals.
8.1.2. Civilization has always included cats.
9. Collective Nouns
9.1. a noun which refers to a group of nouns
9.1.1. crew
9.1.2. orchestra
10. Compound Nouns
10.1. Compound nouns are words where two nouns have been stuck together to make a new noun.Compound nouns should be written as one word, without a hyphen.
10.1.1. sunrise
10.1.2. hairstyle