Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Concrete Noun, Collective Noun, Abstract Noun,Countable Noun and Uncountable Noun



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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