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:
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…
