NOUN
A noun is the name of a thing, person or place.
For example;
Chair, Aslam and college are nouns in the following sentence.
(1) Aslam broke a chair in the college.
Nouns are of different kinds. Some of them are as follows.
1- CONCRETE NOUN
A concrete noun is the name of the things which can be perceived with our five senses. In other words, the things that we can see, touch, hear, smell, or taste are called concrete nouns.
For example;
Girls, flowers, mangoes and garden are concrete nouns, because they appeal to our different senses, in the following sentence.
(2) The girls plucked flowers and mangoes from the garden.
2. ABSTRACT NOUN:
An abstract noun is the name of the things that we cannot perceive with our five senses. In other words, the things that we cannot see, touch, hear, smell, or taste are called abstract nouns. We can feel them only. Above all, we cannot measure them up.
For example;Beauty, love, care, dare and wisdom
are abstract nouns in the following sentence because we are unable to tell how
much they are.
(3) The beautiful
girls having wisdom do not care about beauty and love with care and dare.
3. COMMON NOUN:
A common noun is the name of a common things, person or place. All things become common when we do not call them with their given names.
For example;
Boys, games and ground are common
nouns in the following sentence because their names do not appear in it.
(4) The
school boys are playing games in the ground.
4. PROPER NOUN:
A proper noun is the name of a proper thing, person or place. Nouns become proper when we call them with some given names.
For example;
Aslam, English and Monday are the
proper nouns in the following sentence.
(5) Aslam teaches English every Monday.
5. MATERIAL NOUN:
A material noun is the name of things with which we make other things.
For example;
Iron, gold and water are material nouns in the
following sentence.
(6) He makes
windows with iron, rings with gold and ice
with water in his multifunctional factory.
6. COLLECTIVE NOUN:
When a number of similar things are taken together and spoken of as a whole, it makes a collective noun.
For
example;
Army, team and herd are collective nouns in the
following sentence.
(7) The army found a herd of elephants working together as a team.
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