Topic :- The Noun 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 ✅Noun ✅The Types of Noun ✅Proper Noun ✅Common Noun ✅Collective Noun ✅Interrelationship between Proper, Common and Collective Noun ✅Countable Noun ✅Uncountable Noun ✅Compound Noun ✅Singular Noun ✅Plural Noun ✅Verbal noun ✅Possessive Noun ✅Irregular Noun ✅Regular Noun ✅Plural Noun ✅Functions of Noun -Bidisha Paul

1. NOUN
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2. Contents
NOUN
What is Noun
Types of Noun
Proper Noun Common Noun
Collective Noun
An interrelationship
between Proper,
Common and
Collective Noun
Material Noun
Abstract Noun Countable Noun
Uncountable
Noun
Compound Noun
Some More types
of Noun
Singular Noun Plural Noun
Regular Noun
Irregular Noun
Possessive Noun
Verbal Noun
Functions of
Noun
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4. Proper Noun
Common Noun
Collective Noun
Material Noun
Abstract Noun
Countable Noun
Uncountable Noun
Compound Noun
The Types of Noun
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5. PROPER NOUN
Example
• Person: Tom, Selena Gomez, Justin
Bieber, Billie Eilish.
• Place: America, Seoul, Paris, France,
India, Darjeeling.
• Thing: Amazon, Subway.
DEFINITION
A proper noun is a
name which refers
only to a single
person, place, or
thing.
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6. COMMON NOUN
Example
• Things: Calculator, Phone, Computer.
• Places: City, town, country.
• Person: Student, man, boy, girl.
DEFINITION
A common noun is a
name for something
which is common for
many things, person,
or places.
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7. COLLECTIVE NOUN
Example
• A bunch of sticks.
• A galaxy of stars.
• A colony of ants.
• An army / a regiment of soldiers.
DEFINITION
A collective noun is a
word for a group of
things, people, or
animals, etc.
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8. An Interrelationship among Proper Noun, Common Noun and
Collective Noun.
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9. MATERIAL NOUN
Example
• I have a ring made of
Gold.
• Coal produces non-
renewable energy.
DEFINITION
Substances made out of
tangible materials are
usually Material Nouns.
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10. ABSTRACT NOUN
Example
• Quality: Kindness, brightness,
honesty, beauty.
• State: Boyhood, Childhood,
Youth, slavery.
• Action: Laughter, Movement,
judgement.
DEFINITION
An abstract noun is a
word for something
that cannot be seen
but is there.
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11. COUNTABLE NOUN
Example
• I bought a book on
neurology.
• Alex has four
pencils.
• The car has five
seats.
DEFINITION
The nouns that can
be counted are
called countable
nouns.
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12. UNCOUNTABLE NOUN
Example
• He needs some more time
to finish his work.
• Please give me a glass of
drinking water.
• Oxygen is a gas.
DEFINITION
The nouns that can
not be counted are
called uncountable
nouns.
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13. COMPOUND NOUN
Example
• We need to go to the airport.
• Let us have an ice-cream in this
hot summer afternoon.
• We need good rainfall to save the
crops.
DEFINITION
Sometimes two or three nouns
appear together, or even with
other parts of speech and
create idiomatic (nouns that behave
as a unit and, to a lesser or greater degree,
amount to more than the sum of their parts)
compound nouns.
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14. Singular
Noun
Plural Noun
Regular Noun
Irregular Noun
Possessive Noun
Verbal Noun
Some
More
types
of
nouns
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15. SINGULAR NOUN
Example
• I have a pet dog.
• That big bush is beside our house.
• The car was completely crushed
under the truck.
DEFINITION
Nouns that are
namely singular in
number are called
Singular nouns.
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16. PLURAL NOUN
Example
• There are seven belts in the
seat.
• Let’s unpack those boxes.
• These people are getting on
my nerves.
DEFINITION
The Plural forms of
Singular nouns are
called Plural
Nouns.
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17. REGULAR NOUN
Example
• Some boys are swimming in the
swimming pool at present.
• These boxes are full of toys.
• She love to eat apples.
DEFINITION
Regular Nouns do not
change in spelling when
changed into plural; only
the regular plural suffixes
-s or –es are attached to it
according to the grammar
and spelling agreement.
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18. IRREGULAR NOUN
Example
• Brush your teeth before going
to bed.
• It appears there are mice in
the barn.
DEFINITION
Irregular Nouns do not
have plural suffixes
added to them for their
plural form and they
monumentally change in
spelling.
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19. POSSESSIVE NOUN
Example
• My cat’s litter needs changing
very soon.
• Jacky’s wallet is stolen.
• Your pet’s feeder is missing.
DEFINITION
The noun that owns
something or has
something in its
possession is the
Possessive Noun.
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20. VERBAL NOUN
Example
• Smoking is injurious to
health.
• Running for dear life is
what thieves do.
• Killing the runway tiger
is not a solution.
DEFINITION
Verb + ing often act as the
noun/subject of the sentence
instead of posing as a verb
and then they become a
Verbal Noun.
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21. FUNCTIONS OF NOUN
Nouns can be used as a subject, a direct object, and an indirect object of a verb; as an
object of a preposition; and as an adverb or adjective in sentences. Nouns can also
show possession.
• Subject: The company is doing great.
• Direct object: I finally bought a new mobile.
• Indirect object: Max gave Carol another chocolate.
• Object of preposition : Roses are the flowers of love.
• Adverb: The train leaves today.
• Adjective: The office building faces the mall.
• Possession: The lion’s cage is dangerous.
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