Good day everyone!
Here I am again. Another topic to be discuss. Our topic for today is about classification of nouns. Aren't you excited? So, let's get started.
Are you familiar with proper noun and common noun? How about the count and noncount noun? I know you had learned about abstract and concrete noun. How about collective, compound, material and gender-specific noun? Do you still remember those classification of nouns? Still, remember the singular and plural forms? Well, I will give you some details about it.
There's a difference between proper noun and common noun.A proper noun is a name of a specific on-of-a kind item and begins with capital letter while common noun is a name of general item. For example, the mongol 1 is a proper noun of the pencil which it is the common noun. Let us have the count noun and noncount noun.Count noun can be divided up into smaller units which are separate and distinct from one another while noncount noun that cannot be counted because they are regarded as wholes which cannot be divided into parts.I'll give you some example, in count noun: buildings, chairs, balloons. In noncount noun examples are floor, oxygen, rice. I know you obviously know the difference between concrete and abstract noun. If we talk about concrete noun, it names something that you can physically see, touch, taste , hear and smell, on the other hand, if we talk about abstract noun, it names something that is non physical that you cannot perceive through any of your senses.Concrete noun examples: bag, chair, perfume. Abstract noun examples: love, courage, power. Do you still remember other classification of nouns? We have collective noun, it is a word that refers to a group. It can be either singular or plural depending on the sentence. For example, musicians, dancers and teachers. Compound noun is composed of the two or more words acting as single unit. For example in separated are heart attack, movie stars. In hypenated are mother-in-law, ex-girlfriend, light-year. In combined are firefly, butterfly.
Material noun is the name given to the material, substance or things made up of alloy. It refers to the type of substance instead of individual particles. For example material nouns from nature: water, air. The last one is gender specific noun, it refers specifically to a male or a female. For example: actress (female) , actor (male) and there is also neutral. Moving on, let us talk about singular and plural, singular nouns can indicate number, it name one person. place or thing. Plural nouns name more persons, places or things, most of it are formed by the additional -s and -es. Here are some examples of singular and plural forms:
Singular Plural
a. kiss - kisses
boy - boys
b. analysis - analyses
basis - bases
c. sheep - sheep
fish - fish
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