There are different ways of classifying nouns but the most common classification is the four types of nouns. This slideshow explains with examples the types of a noun.

1. NOUN-TYPES
By
Dr. Yashwant Handibag
M.A., Ph.D., NET

2.  Definition: A noun is a name of a place, person or thing.
Examples: Mohan, table, water, gold, etc.
 Nouns can be divided into two main classes – Concrete and Abstract.
 Abstract Nouns: These are the names of things that we can only think of,
but cannot touch or see. They have no physical existence. They express a
quality (patience, beauty), a state (death, youth), a feeling or an action
(pleasure, flight) or a general idea or system of thought (logic, astronomy).
Such nouns are called Abstract Nouns.

3.  Concrete Nouns: These are the names of persons, or things that we
can touch and see. They exist physically or materially. Such nouns are
called Concrete Nouns.
 Concrete Nouns can be sub-divided into four groups.
1. Proper Nouns: The names of particular persons, places or things are
called Proper Nouns.
Examples: Akbar, John, Everest, etc.

4. 2. Common Nouns: The names that can be applied to any one of a class
of persons, places or things are called Common Nouns.
Examples: boy, king, river, mountain, etc.
3. Collective Nouns: These are the names of groups of persons or objects
of the same kind, considered as a single whole.
Examples: a crowd of people, a team of players, a herd of cattle, a flock
of sheep, a fleet of ships, etc.
4. Material Nouns: These are the names of materials or substances.
Examples: gold, silver, clay, stone, wood, cotton, etc.

5.  Countable Nouns and Uncountable Nouns:
 Countable Nouns: The nouns that we can count together as one, two,
three, four…….etc. are called as Countable Nouns.
Examples: pen, boy, river, etc.
-We can have plural forms of these nouns.
 Uncountable Nouns: The nouns that we cannot count as one, two,
three, four,…..etc. are called as Uncountable Nouns.
Examples: water, rice, beauty, gold, etc.
-We cannot have plural forms of these nouns.