English Fundamentals

Speech Lesson 2 : Nouns

What are nouns?

A noun is a word that is used to name or describe an individual, place, object, or concept. Nouns come in a variety of forms, including proper nouns, abstract nouns, collective nouns, concrete nouns, and more.
Get it? now lets talk about the different varieties of nouns.

Varieties of Nouns

Common nouns

Common nouns are uncapitalized words that describe classes of objects, persons, and locations, such as "dog," "professor," and "city," and are frequently used with articles and other identifiers.

Proper nouns

An appropriate noun is one that is used to refer to a particular place, person, or item. In English, proper nouns are usually capitalized to set them apart from common nouns. Examples of proper nouns

Common nouns	Proper nouns
boy/man	Glenn
girl/woman	Kristine
dog	Spot
country	Philippines
cellphone	Realme

Now we know what common nouns and proper nouns are. are you ready for the others?

Countable and Uncountable nouns

Countable nouns

Countable nouns are nouns that can be counted. it can either be in singular or plural form. In short Countable nouns are individual people, animals, places, things, or ideas which can be counted.

Uncountable nouns

Uncountable nouns, commonly referred to as mass nouns or noncount nouns, designate a quantity of something or a vague idea that cannot be counted (except with a unit of measurement). In contrast, countable nouns can be tallied as individual items.

Countable nouns	cat, note, coin, chair, table, fork, bag
Uncountable nouns	music, money, water, air, news

Abstract nouns

Abstract nouns are used to refer to immaterial concepts—things that are not visible to the five senses. Due to the fact that you cannot touch or see abstract terms like love, time, beauty, and science. Examples of abstract nouns

Things we cannot see or touch are considered abstract nouns. They are frequently feelings or emotions, such as friendship or zeal.

Concrete nouns

Concrete nouns describes physical things that can be sensed; it relies on our bodies senses. Physical things that has been seen, touched, heard, smelled, or tasted is what it refers to. most nouns are concrete nouns. Here are examples of concrete nouns:

Collective nouns

A collective noun is a noun that refers to a particular group or collective—of individuals, creatures, objects, etc. Even if they relate to a group of things, collective nouns are typically not considered as plural. Common nouns like "group" and proper nouns like "Google" or "The Rolling Stones" are examples of collective nouns.

Here are examples of collective nouns:

common nouns	collective nouns
People	family, group, squad, staff, board, class, etc.
animals	flock, colony, cackle, murder, herd, nest
things	bunch, fleet, set, collection

example phrases using collective nouns:
a board of directors
a class of students
a collection of toys

Compound Noun

A Compound is a word that has multiple morphemes(words that cannot be devided to smaller segmentswithout changing its meaning). Like many other languages, the English makes entensive use of compounds. the word classes of English compounds or sematic relatioinships between their contituent words are just two examples of how they can be categorized.

Examples of compound nouns:

Compound elements	examples
noun+noun	water-tank, motor-cycle, bed-room,
noun+verb	hair-cut, rain-fall,

Attributive Noun

A noun that modifies another noun and serves as an adjective is known as an attributive noun. Also referred to as a converted adjective, a noun adjunct, and a noun premodifier. In addition to countability, nouns have four additional crucial grammatical features that can be used to characterize them: gender, number, person, and case.

Familiar with nouns now? GREAT! let's move on to pronouns :D