There are several different types of nouns. These include:
- Common Nouns :- A common noun is the word used for a class of person, place or thing.
eg - Car, man, town etc
- Abstract Nouns :- things you cannot see or touch
e.g., bravery, joy
- Collective Nouns :- words to describe groups
e.g., team, choir
- Compound Nouns :- Compound nouns are nouns made up of two or more words. Some compound nouns are hyphenated. Some are not, and some combine their words to form a single word.
eg- Mother-in-law, Board of members, Court-martial
- Concrete Nouns :- things you can see or touch
e.g., tree, cloud
- non-countable nouns :- things you cannot count
e.g., food, music
- Gender-specific nouns :- words which are definitely male or female .
e.g., vixen, actress
- Verbal Nouns :- Verbal nouns (also called gerunds) are formed from verbs. They end -ing. They are a type of common noun.
eg- I love swimming.
(swimming – the name of an activity; it is formed from the verb to swim.)
- Proper Nouns, and Pronouns A pronoun is a word used to replace a noun. :- Pronouns are one of the eight parts of speech which are: adjectives, adverbs
conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns and verbs.
Even though they are classified as a different part of speech to nouns, pronouns are nouns. They always play the role of a noun in a sentence.
eg- James is the first choice for the post. He has applied for it twice already.
(He is a pronoun. In this example, it replaces the proper noun James.)
(It is a pronoun. Here, it replaces the common noun post.)
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