Concrete
Noun
A concrete noun is a noun that names anything
(or any one) that you can perceive through your physical senses: touch, sight,
taste, hearing, or smell.
Student
Book
Dog
Pencil
Computer
The high
lighting words in the following sentences are all concrete nouns:
a.
The student handed the books
to the Liberian.
b.
Whenever we take the dog to the doctor, we are made to wait in a close room with no ventilation.
Collective
Noun
A collective noun is a noun naming a group of
things, animals, or persons. We can count the individual members of the group
as a whole. A collective noun is a noun that is singular in form but refers to
a group of people, animals or things.
Jury,
herd, pack, army, crowed, mob, fleet, committee, team, flock, bunch, group,
family, board
Examples:
The pack
of wolves in found in this part of the reverse.
The jury
is split on the issue.
The family
meets every year during the winters.
The class
was surprised at the announcement made by teacher.
Abstract
Noun
An abstract noun is a noun which names anything
which you cannot perceive through sight or touch, rather it is an idea, state,
experience or quality of a person or thing.
Quality: kindness, darkness, goodness,
brightness, softness, peacefulness, etc.
Action: movement, compromise, judgement,
coordination, laugher, etc.
State: sleep, poverty, slavery, youth,
childhood, etc.
Names of arts and science are also abstract
nouns: biology, grammar, music, etc.
Countable
Noun
Countable noun are object, people, places, etc.
that can be count.
Bird,
cat, pencils, Russians, pictures, boys, cars, men.
A countable noun can be singular-a bird, a
box-or plural-cars, men.
1.
We placed the pens, books, on the table.
2.
Saroj found ten silver coins in a little pot buried in her garden.
3.
The floods washed away the houses, cattle and tree.
4.
This book contains plays, poems and stories.
Uncountable
Noun
Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts,
etc. that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot “count” them. For
example, we cannot count “milk”. But we cannot count “milk” itself.
Here some uncountable nouns:
Information,
water, milk, understating, wood, cheese, justice

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