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nouns

NOUNS
nouns ...  GENERALLY
School   -   garden   -   hoop   -   swing   -   house   -   car   -   bicycle   -   boat   -   dog  horse   -   happy
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-     A nice house.
-     A pretty garden.
-     A red car.

​Hint:  If you can put 'a', 'an', or 'the' in front of a word, it's definitely a noun.
There are several types of nouns:
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 Abstract nouns   -    Collective nouns     -    Common nouns     -    Compound nouns     Concrete nouns   -   Countable nouns     -    Pronoun     -    Proper nouns  -  Uncountable  nouns
ABSTRACT NOUNS
An abstract noun refers to a thing that does not exist as a 'material object'.  You cannot hear, see, taste, touch and smell an abstract noun.
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Honesty   -   beauty   -   happiness   -   sadness   -   liberty   -    friendship   -    truth      childhood    love
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
A collective noun is a word which refers to a collection / groups of animals, birds, creatures, people or things:​-   
A gaggle of geese.
A parliament of owls
A mustering of stalks
A descent of woodpeckers
A troop of kangaroos
A litter of puppies
A crash of rhinoceroses
A dray of squirrels
A crowd of onlookers
A crew of sailors
A choir of singers
A class of students
-    For an interesting list of collective nouns, click here ...
-    To view interesting animal facts and collective nouns, visit:   
      
www.animalsandenglish.com
COMMON NOUNS
Common nouns are general/non-specific names of animals, objects, places, things, people and ideas.

-     Animals  .... bee   -   monkey   -   deer   -   elephant   -   dog    -   cat    -   bird     
                         fish   -   snake -  dolphin

-     Places ........ street   -   station   -   airport   -   dock   -   hospital    -   park   
                         office   -   library  -  shop

-     People ....... policeman   -   mother   -   uncle   -   builder   -    girl   -   man   
                         woman   -   vicar  -   priest
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-     Things ....... car   -    plane   -    computer    -   pen    -   camera    -    table 
                         boat    -  lamp   -    chair -   book
compound nouns
Compound nouns are made up of at least two words and are often hyphenated:
-     mother-in-law   -   Forget-me-not   -   baby-sitter    

Compound nouns with spaces:
-     swimming pool    -    fish tank

Compound nouns without spaces:
-     shotgun    -    eyelid     -    housework   
concrete noun
A concrete noun is something that you can see, smell, touch, feel and hear. There are countable concrete nouns and uncountable concrete nouns.

-     Countable nouns are used to name something that can be counted:
      One teacher (people)   -    valley (place)   -    deer (animal)   -    comb (thing)
      Two dogs   -   one egg   -   three bananas    -   five mice    -    six deer

-     Unaccountable nouns refer to something that cannot be counted and, therefore, will
      have no plural:

       Water (liquid)   -    steam (gas)   -    copper (substance)  
      
PRONOUN
Used instead of a noun.
He   -    she   -   it   -   we   -   you   -   they   -   I
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​-     She lives in a nice house.
-     It has a pretty garden.
-     He parks his car in the garage.
PROPER NOUN
Proper noun is a name of a person, place, organisation. A proper noun always has a capital letter.   Proper nouns also refer to times or to dates in the calendar.

-     Animals  ................... Donald Duck    -   Lassie    -   Mickey Mouse
-     Organisation ............. Kingston Voluntary Action   -   The United Nations   -   Surrey
                                        County Council

-     People  ....................  Queen Elizabeth   -    Nat King Cole   -   Sir Winston Churchill 
-     Places ......................  Heathrow Airport   -   Waterloo Station   -   Brighton   
                                         Kenya   -   Dubai

-     Things .....................   Financial Times newspaper, Eiffel Tower
-     Times and dates  .......  Saturday, 31 August 1982​
RELATIVE NOUN
-     Who  .......................... The child who dropped the doll lives nearby
-     Whom  ....................... Whom did she say dropped the doll?
-     Whose .......................  Whose doll is it anyway? 
-     That  .........................  She has the doll that was thrown away
-     Which  .......................  I don't really know which of them threw the doll away
UNCOUNTABLE / mass NOUN
As the word implies, these are nouns that cannot be counted.  They are substances, concepts that we are unable to 'count'.  They are usually in the singular form:

Music   -   art   -   news    -    rice   -   sugar    -    butter    -   money   -   travel   -   work

-      The music is very loud.                   
-      There is no electricity.
-      Where can I get the information?

T​he music, electricity and information cannot be counted.
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  • GRAMMAR
    • ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS
    • ANTONYMS and SYNONYMS
    • CLAUSES
    • CONJUNCTIONS
    • GENDER
    • HOMOGRAPHS / HOMONYMS/HOMOPHONES
    • IDIOMS and METAPHORS
    • INTERJECTIONS and EXCLAMATIONS
    • NOUNS
    • PREPOSITIONS
    • SIMILES
    • SPLIT INFINITIVES
    • SUBJECT and OBJECT
    • VERBS
    • VERB TENSES
  • ODDITIES
    • AFFECT vs EFFECT
    • ALLITERATION, PARALLELISM and POLYPTOTON
    • AMONG vs AMONGST
    • CLICHES
    • CONTINOUSLY vs CONTINUALLY
    • DISINTERESTED vs UNINTERESTED
    • DOUBLE NEGATIVES
    • DUE TO vs OWING TO
    • EITHER .. OR, NEITHER .. NOR
    • FARTHER vs FURTHER
    • I.E vs E.G
    • IF ... WAS vs WERE
    • IMPLY OR INFER
    • MAY and MIGHT
    • NONE WAS vs NONE WERE
    • SHALL or WILL
    • THAT vs WHICH vs WHO
    • THIS, THAT, THESE and THOSE
  • CURIOUS
    • HANDY VERSES
    • WORD SOUNDS
    • SOUNDS OF OBJECTS
  • PUNCTUATION
    • APOSTROPHES and HYPHENS
    • BRACKETS - Round and Square
    • COLON and SEMI-COLON
    • COMMAS and FULL STOPS
    • EXCLAMATIONS and QUESTION MARKS
    • NUMERALS
  • SPELLING
    • DROP, SWAP and DOUBLE
    • FUN THINGS TO DO WITH WORDS
    • PREFIXES and SUFFIXES
    • 'I' BEFORE 'E' and ''Q'' followed by "U"
    • SILENT LETTERS
    • SINGULAR to PLURAL
  • PITFALLS
  • REPORT WRITING - HINTS