TYPES OF NOUN

DEFINITION: Noun is a word which is used to name something as a person, animal, thing and place. There are six kinds of noun in English.

1) Proper Noun

2) Common Noun

3) Abstractive Noun

4) Collective Noun

5) Compound Noun

6) Material Noun

1) PROPER NOUN

DEFINITION: Proper Noun is a name of particular thing, person, animal and place. On the other hand, proper noun is always written with a capital letter at the beginning of the word.

Example: Dara, New York, Cambodia, John, Angkor Wat…

2) COMMON NOUN

DEFINITION: Common Noun is a name which is given in common to everyone (person, thing, animal…..).

Example: Man, teacher, doctor, dog, cat, house, chair…

3) ABSTRACTIVE NOUN

DEFINITION: Abstractive Noun is the name of idea, quality and action that is the name of something we can’t touch, see, smell and taste.

Example:

- Idea: Advice, ambition, wish...

- Quality: Goodness, kindness, darkness...

- Action: Talking, movement, discussion..

NOTE: Some Abstractive Nouns can make from many kinds of adjective, verb and common noun.

a) Abstractive Noun makes from adjective.

Adjective

Abstractive Noun

dark

poor

wise

honest

darkness

poverty

wisdom

honesty

b) Abstractive Noun makes from verb.

Verb

Abstractive Noun

hope

regret

help

promise

hope

regret

help

promise

c) Abstractive Noun is quite different from verb.

Verb

Abstractive Noun

live

die

know

advise

life

death

knowledge

advice

Verb Abstractive Noun

d) Abstractive Noun makes from common noun.

Common Noun

Abstractive Noun

man

friend

hero

infant

manhood

friendship

heroism

infancy

4) COLLECTIVE NOUN

DEFINITION: Collective Noun is a name of number or collection of person, thing and animal taken together and spoken as a whole.

Example: Army, committee, family, nation, association, community…

5) COMPOUND NOUN

DEFINITION: Compound Nouns are the nouns that are combined between one word with another word and can make from many kinds of noun, adjective and verb.

Noun/ Adjective/verb

Noun

Common Noun

sun

strong

walking

light

man

stick

sunlight

strongman

walking-stick

6) MATERIAL NOUN

DEFINITION: Material Noun is the name of particular object.

Example: Chair, table, car, book, pen, house, radio…