English Grammar, Word Types- Identifying Nouns Worksheet #3

Nouns

Nouns are essential building blocks of language. First, they name people, places, things, or ideas. For example, words like teacher, city, and freedom are all nouns. Additionally, nouns can serve different roles in a sentence, such as subjects or objects. Understanding nouns helps improve both writing and communication skills.

Proper Noun: Names given to entities that are unique in the world and that are not identical among other entities. Examples: Asia, Mercury, Brasil, Clara, Tom, World Health Organisation, etc.

Common Noun: Common names of beings of the same genus, same species. For example, we call objects useful for writing pens, even if their shapes, colors, and sizes are different. Examples: pencil, tree, person, house, child, love, sadness, fear, excitement, etc.

Concrete Noun: Some words refer to entities that can be perceived by “any of our five senses (sight, touch, hearing, smell, taste)”. Such words are concrete words. Examples: pen, tree, heat, air, boy, water, soil, green, etc.

Abstract Noun: Some of the words correspond to entities that we cannot perceive with “any of our five senses”. Such words are abstract words. We can perceive their existence with our minds and feelings. Examples: love, joy, sadness, courage, beauty, peace, fear, goodness, doubt, etc.

Singular Noun: Nouns that meet a single entity or concept. Examples: child, tree, house, flower, country, human, etc.

Plural Noun: We make singular nouns plural by adding -s, -es, or -ies suffixes. Examples: children, trees, houses, flowers, etc. Some nouns have irregular plural forms.

Collective Noun: These are the names that seem singular in terms of structure but express more than one concept in meaning. Examples: army, herd, forest, class, nation, etc.

Count Noun: Count noun refers to things that can be counted. They have both singular and plural forms. Examples: hat, table, glass, book, umbrella, etc.

Mass Noun: This refers to things that cannot be counted. They have only one form. Examples: knowledge, happiness, cheese, juice, oxygen, etc.