KINDS OF NOUNS:

•          Common Nouns – are names of people (e.g. man), things (e.g. books), animals (e.g. monkey) and places (church).

•         Proper Nouns – are special names of people (e.g. George Bush), things (e.g. Financial Times), animals (e.g. King Kong) and places (e.g. Paris). A proper noun begins with a Capital Letter.

•          Abstract Nouns – An abstract noun is the name of something that we can only think of or feel but cannot see (e.g. friendship).

•         Collective Nouns – are names used for a number of people,

things or animals together and treated as one. For example: a group of friends, a bunch of bananas, a litter of puppies.     

•         Countable and Uncountable Nouns – Countable nouns are nouns which can be counted (e.g. trees). Uncountable nouns are nouns which cannot be counted. (e.g. smoke).

Countable and Uncountable Nouns are used with the following:

Nouns have four genders:

1.         Masculine Gender – The masculine gender is used for all males. Example: boy, man

2.         Feminine Gender – The feminine gender is used for all females. Example: girl, woman

3.         Common Gender – The common gender is used where the noun can be both male and female. Example: cousin, friend, person, child, student

4.         Neuter Gender – The neuter gender is used for things which have no life or sex. Example: table, chair.

Singular and Plural Nouns – A noun that shows only one person (e.g. a girl), thing (e.g. pencil), animal (e.g. tiger) or place (e.g. market) is called a singular noun).

A noun that shows more than one person (e.g. girls), thing (e.g. pencils), animal (e.g. tigers) or place (e.g. markets) is called a plural noun.

How plural nouns are formed.

By adding –s.

FORMING NOUNS

Nouns can be formed from nouns, verbs and adjectives. They are formed by adding certain letters to them.