Type of Nouns

1. “Type of Nouns”

2. What is a noun?
A noun is a…A noun is a…
Person Place
Thing Idea
Types

3. Types of Nouns
Concrete and Abstract
Common and Proper
Collective

4. “Type of nouns”
CONCRETE VS ABSTRACT
ANTERIOR

5. Common and Proper
ANTERIOR

6. Doctor is a noun.
Person
Examples

7. Examples
Thing
Table is a noun.

8. Examples
Place
Russia is a noun.

9. Examples
Idea
Happiness is a noun.

10. Concrete Nouns
 Can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted or touched

Like: rainbows, dogs, cats, houses, leaves, Thunder, etc.

11. Abstract Nouns
 Are feelings,
happiness
 ideas,
freedom
 qualities or characteristics.
beauty, humor or greed

12. Collective
Nouns
 Are words that name groups

13. Collective nouns…
 Act like singular nouns.
For example, you would write:
 The tribe is small.
 The faculty is large.
In both sentences, you use a singular verb because the
collective noun is technically singular even though it is
talking about more than one person.
For more practice
ANTERIOR

14. Common Nouns
Examples:
Person friend
Place country
Thing television
Idea happiness

15. Examples:
Melanie
Australia
Sony
Proper Nouns

16. For more practice
● https://www.englishgrammar.org/kinds-nouns-exe
● https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?
● https://www.englishpractice.com/quiz/kinds-noun