An English noun is a part of speech used to name a person, animal, place, thing, or abstract concepts.
A noun can function in a sentence as a subject, a direct object, an indirect object, a subject complement, an object complement, an appositive, an adjective or an adverb.
Proper nouns are capitalised and include: name of a specific person, place, or thing, days of the week, months of the year, historical documents, institutions, organisations, religions, holy texts and religious followers.
A common noun refers in general to a person, place, or thing.
A concrete noun names everything that you can perceive through the physical senses of touch, sight, taste, hearing, or smell.
An abstract noun names anything that you can not perceive through your five physical senses. Abstract nouns name or refer to non-concrete entities, ideas or concepts. Abstract nouns: love, optimism, truth, freedom, belief and hope.
A countable noun or count noun names anything or anyone that you can count and is a noun with both a singular and a plural form.
A non-countable noun or mass noun refers to something that you could or would not usually count. A non-count noun refers to an indivisible whole. They only have singular forms.
A collective noun names a group of things, animals or persons. It takes a singular verb when you want to refer to a collective noun as one whole unit and it takes a plural verb when you want to refer to the members which make up the collective.
A possessive noun indicates ownership or possession.
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