NOUNS, KINDS OF NOUNS, and THE EXAMPLES

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Nouns

A noun is a word used as name for a

person, place, animal or thing. (You might

like to think of nouns as naming words.)

Sometimes a noun will be the name for

something we can touch (e.g., lion, cake,

computer), and sometimes a noun will be

the name for something we cannot touch

(e.g., bravery, mile, joy).

EXAMPLE NOUNS

P – People : soldier, Alan, cousin, Frenchman.

A – Animal : rat, zebra, lion.

P – Places : house, London, factory, shelter.

A – Action : cooking, barking, reading, listening, crowing.

M – Meansure : month - inch - day - pound – ounce.

O – Objects : table - frame - printer – chisel.

S – Substances : lead - nitrogen - water – ice.

Q – Qualities : kindness - beauty - bravery - wealth – faith.

1. COMMON NOUN

2. PROPER NOUN

3. COLLECTIVE NOUN

4. COUMPOUND NOUN

KINDS OF NOUNS

Common Noun is general name for the

same kind of things, person or places.

Common Nouns are spelled in small letters.

ex: friend, city, monument.

Common Nouns

A proper noun is a special name, that names a particular

person, place or thing.

A proper noun can be made up of more than one world. Ex:

Sunset Palace.

A proper noun always begins with a capital letter.

Proper noun include;

The names of days of the week: Sunday, Monday, etc.

Names of months of the year: January, May, December, etc.

Proper Nouns

Fleck has a friend called Roy. CN PR

Bandung is a beautiful city.PN CN

The Sunset Palace is an old monument.PN CN

Jayawijaya is one of the higest mountain in Indonesia. PN CN

Common Noun or Prover Noun

Abstrack Nouns

Concrete Nouns

Material nouns

Types of Common Noun

abstract noun is a noun that refers to a quality, idea or feeling. It is a thing that we cannot see or touch, but can only think of, hear or feel it.

Example: Honesty – refers to quality of a person.

Belief – refers to idea of a person. Joy – it is on of kind filling of a

person.

Another example: bravery, strength, patience, happiness, kindness, friendship, knowlege, etc.

Abstract Nouns

Abstract nouns often formed from adjectives, verbs and common nouns.

We add suffixes to form abstract nouns.

◦ Example: Dark + ness = darkness Adjectives N. suffixes abstract noun

Observe + action = observation Verb N. suffixes abstract noun

King + ship = king ship C. Noun N. Suffixes abstract noun

Formation of Abstract Nouns

Noun can be formed from a common noun

Common Noun Suffix Abstract Noun

Poet ry Poetry

Human Nity Humanity

Leader ship Leadership

Verb Suffix Abstract Noun

realise tion realisation

punish ment punishment

deny al denial

Abstract Noun can be formed from a verb

Adjective Suffix Abstract Noun

Honest y Honesty

Clear ly Clearly

Kind ness Kindness

Abstract Noun can be formed adjective

A concrect noun is a noun that refers to a thing that we can both see or touch.

Example : boy, lion, car, tree.

Santi likes to drink coffieProper Noun concrect nouns

Concrect Nouns

Material noun is a substance, a material or an ingredient we can see and touch which is used for making things.

Example : gold, coal, wheat, rubber, etc. Material Noun ussually uncountable noun. Example : This window is made of glass.

Common Noun Material Noun

Material noun become a common noun if there is an article berfore it. e.g.The glass.Or the Noun is in the plural ex: glasses

MATERIAL NOUN

Metal : iron, gold, platinum, etc.

Products measured in bulk : tea, sugar, rice, wheat, etc.

Geological bodies : mud, sand, granite, rock, etc.

Natural phenomena : rain, dew, clod, frost, mist, etc.

Items manufactured : clothes, soap, rubber, paint, etc.

Group of Material Noun

Honesty is the best policy. Abstract Noun

Diamond is known for its hardness. Abstract Noun

Jack bought a car. concrete noun

The cakes are decorated. Concrete noun

The cupboard is made of iron.Material noun

My mother made some delicious honey candies. Material noun

Example abstract, concrete, & material nouns.

Compound noun is a noun formed by combining two or more words.

Example : Zizi buit a bird houseproper noun Coumpound Noun

Her grandmother live in Olive Brook coumpound noun coumpound Noun

COMPOUND NOUNS

Compound noun maybe written as one word.

Example : birdhouse – bird + housepostcard – post + cardwaterfall – water + fallmanservan – man + servan

How to write Coumpound Noun 1

A compound noun maybe written as separate words.

Example : fire station

United Kingdom

board of member

How to write Coumpound Noun 2

A coumpound noun may also be written with hyphens joining the words.

Example : great-grandmother

five-year-old

twenty-one

mother-inlaw

court-matrial

paper-clip

How to write Coumpound Noun 3

Example : Uncle Jim has a herd of cows. collective noun

The dog gave birth to a litter of puppies. collective noun

A noun, such as a herd of litter, wich is the

name of a group or collection of the same

kind of person, animals or things, i called a

collective noun.

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

A flock of sheep a set of tools collective noun CN collective noun CN

A crowd of people a fleet of ships collective noun CN collective noun CN

Berdasarkan contoh di atas pengertian collective

nouns adalah grup atau kumpulan dari Common

Nouns.

Example of collective nouns

A Collective noun can be used by it self or

along with the noun that it is made up of.

Example :

The crownd cheered for the group of

singgers

collective noun collective noun

common noun

by it self along with noun

Using Collective Nouns 1

A singgle Collective Noun can be used for

different nouns. Example : bunch

A bunch of flowers CV. N CN

A buch of grapes CV. N CN

A buch of keys CV. N CN

Using Collective Nouns 2

Two different collective noun can be used

for a singgle noun.

Example :

A buch of flowers

A bouquet of flowers

Buch and bouquet refers to groups of

flowers.

Using Collective Nouns 3