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NOUNS

Nouns can be classified into several types including proper, common, collective, material, and abstract nouns. Nouns are also classified as countable or uncountable, where countable nouns can be counted and have a plural form while uncountable nouns refer to mass quantities. Some nouns can be either countable or uncountable depending on the sense in which they are used.

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NOUNS

Nouns can be classified into several types including proper, common, collective, material, and abstract nouns. Nouns are also classified as countable or uncountable, where countable nouns can be counted and have a plural form while uncountable nouns refer to mass quantities. Some nouns can be either countable or uncountable depending on the sense in which they are used.

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JODHPUR INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

(AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTE AFFILIATED TO BTU)


ACCRIDITED BY NAAC WITH ‘A’ GRADE

NOUNS
CLASSIFICATION-NUMBER-GENDER-CASE
Presented by: Prof. (Dr.) Kamal Bhattacharyya
ASST. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
DEPT. OF APPLIED SCIENCES
DEFINITION
• Noun is the word by which any name is
referred. Therefore we can say nouns are
naming words.
Nouns-Classification
Generally nouns are of five different kinds:-
Proper--Common or Class-Collective—Material--
Abstract
Concrete Nouns
• Proper/Common/Collective/Material—these
nouns fall under the category Concrete Nouns
• Concrete Noun is the name of an object of
sense, that is, an object which can be seen
touched, heard, smelt or tasted: like boy, dog,
song, flower, milk, gold
Abstract Noun
• Abstract noun is the name of a quality, action, or state
belonging to an object: softness, smile, wealth, silence.
• Generally all nouns ending in –ness, --tion, --hood, --ship,
--dom, --ment, --ism, --th, --ic, --cy are Abstract. Like:
goodness, kindness, education, childhood, friendship,
kingdom, attachment, Socialism, strength, justice, infancy etc.
• Names of sciences, arts and diseases are now treated as
Abstract Nouns: Music, politics, grammar, malaria etc. “But
When different kinds or attacks of a disease are meant, they
become common nouns. Thus, I had one of my headaches;
Fevers are generally preceded by chills or rigour”—Wren.
Proper Noun
• It is the name of one particular person, place,
thing, or event ( or group of persons or places)
as distinct from every other.
• Examples: Rabindranath, the Ganges, London,
the Andes, the French Revolution, the
Ramayana, the Hindus
Common or Class Noun
• It denotes no one person or thing in particular but is
common to any and every person thing of the same kind.
Thus man, book, river, country are common nouns.
• There are few nouns, generally classed as Common,
which are sometimes called Singular Noun, because
there is only one of each of them known to us: earth,
sun, moon etc. `
• When God and Lord refer to the Almighty, they are
Proper; but when they refer to the different gods of
mythology and temporal lords, they are common.
Collective Nouns
• It is the name of a group or collection or persons or things taken as a
whole: Like-a shoal of fish, a pack of wolves, a flight of arrows.
• The Noun of Multitude is practically the same as the Collective Noun.
But a distinction is often made between them:-
• A. A Collective Noun denotes one individual whole, hence the verb is
singular. The army was defeated. The Committee as approved the
decision.
• B. A noun of Multitude denotes the individuals of the group, hence the
verb is plural although the noun is singular in form. The jury were
divided in their opinions.
• Henry Watson Fowler says that the Collective Noun is the same as the
Noun of Multitude. They are treated as singular or plural at discretion
or naturally (MEU).
Material Noun
• Material Noun denotes the matter or
substance, of which things are made. It is also
called Mass Noun.
• River is the common noun, but water is
Material Noun; Ornament is common noun
but gold/silver are Material Noun.
COUNTABLE NOUN UNCOUNTABLE

• Noun can also be classified as Countable and


Uncountable Noun
1. Countable Noun: Nouns that can be counted.
Like boy, top, house, book etc. Remember only
Countable Nouns have plural form and can be
used with indefinite article (a,an,the) and
determiners like many, few, several.
COUNTABLE NOUN UNCOUNTABLE

• Uncountable Noun: Uncountable Nouns stand


for something that cannot be counted but can
be measured. Like water, milk, air, glass, wood,
sand. Uncountable Nouns have no plural form
and are not used with the indefinite article.
They are determined by much, little, more,
most,
COUNTABLE OR UNCOUNTABLE?
• Some of the nouns can be used as Countable or
Uncountable according to the sense in which they are
used, with a change in the meaning:
• Paper (substance)-material noun—Uncountable
• Paper (Newspaper)-Countable
• Glass (material) Uncountable
• Glass (tumbler) Countable
• Wood (substance) Uncountable
• Wood (forest) Countable
• Copper (metal) Uncountable
• Copper (coin) Countable

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