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    This document provides an overview of nouns and their different types. It begins by defining a noun as a naming word that represents people, places, objects, substances, qualities, actions, etc. It then discusses the different types of nouns including common and proper nouns, countable and uncountable nouns, collective nouns, possessive nouns, and nouns that can function as adjectives. Examples are given for each noun type to illustrate their meanings and usage. The summary at the end succinctly recaps the key points about nouns covered in the document.

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    This document provides an overview of nouns and their different types. It begins by defining a noun as a naming word that represents people, places, objects, substances, qualities, actions, etc. It then discusses the different types of nouns including common and proper nouns, countable and uncountable nouns, collective nouns, possessive nouns, and nouns that can function as adjectives. Examples are given for each noun type to illustrate their meanings and usage. The summary at the end succinctly recaps the key points about nouns covered in the document.

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    2015

    Career Anna
    Sentence Correction Course

    Career Anna
    Before we start off with the core Sentence Correction course and its nuances, let us brush ip the
    basics of grammar fundamentals.
    This course will ensure that you do not need to go through in detail the thick grammar books,
    but just going through them at high level through our concept notes shall help you sail through
    the Sentence Correction Questions in entrance examinations.
    Remember, the idea behind the course is not to revisit Wren & Martin but just to get a basic
    comfort level with the different parts of speech and sentence, to help in scoring high in Sentence
    Correction and Grammar related questions.
    So, first, lets take a look at the different parts of speech, which are basically the words that you
    use to make up a sentence. There are 8 parts of speech in the English language:
    1. Noun
    2. Pronoun
    3. Adjective
    4. Verb
    5. Adverb
    6. Preposition
    7. Conjunction
    8. Interjection
    In this concept note, we will have a detailed look at Nouns.
    Nouns
    Nouns are naming words. Everything we see or are able to talk about is represented by a word
    which names it - that word is called a 'noun'. These can be names for people, animals, places,
    objects, substances, qualities, actions, etc.
    Examples:
    i) Names for people, animals, places Tom, Englishman, brother, cat, office, China
    ii) Names for objects and substances chair, computer, hammer, oxygen, water, ice
    iii) Names for qualities kindness, beauty, bravery, faith
    iv) Names for actions rowing, cooking, reading, listening

    Common & Proper Nouns


    A common noun is the word used for a class of person, place or thing.
    Examples: car, man, city, iron, liquid, company, etc.
    A proper noun is the name of a particular or specific person, place or thing. A proper noun
    always starts with a capital letter.
    Examples: Alfred, Asia, Aunt Becky, Nobel prize, Mercedes, Microsoft, etc.

    Countable & Uncountable Nouns


    A countable noun (or count noun) is a noun with both a singular and a plural form, and it names
    anything (or anyone) that you can count. You can make a countable noun plural and attach it to
    a plural verb in a sentence.
    Countable nouns are the opposite of non-countable nouns and collective nouns.
    In each of the following two sentences, the highlighted words are countable nouns:
    i) John painted the table red and the chairs blue.
    ii) The oak tree lost three branches in the storm.
    A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun that does not have a plural form and that refers
    to something that you could (or would) not usually count.
    A non-countable noun always takes a singular verb in a sentence. Non-countable nouns are
    similar to collective nouns (but not the same), and are the opposite of countable nouns.
    In each of the following sentences, the highlighted words are non-countable nouns:
    i) Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen.
    ii) We decided to sell the furniture rather than take it with us when we moved.
    In the above examples, the words 'oxygen and 'furniture cannot normally be made plural and
    take the singular verb "is" rather than the plural verb 'are.
    Examples of Non-countable nouns:

    music, art, love, happiness, advice, information, news


    furniture, luggage, rice, sugar, butter, water
    electricity, gas, power, money, currency
    Sometimes, the same noun can be countable and uncountable, often with a change of meaning.

    Countable Uncountable
    There are two hairs in my coffee hair I don't have much hair
    There are two lights in our bedroom light Close the curtain. There's too much light!
    Our house has seven rooms room Is there room for me to sit here?

    Collective Nouns
    A collective noun is a noun naming a group of things, animals, or persons. You could count the
    individual members of the group, but you usually think of the group as one unit.

    You need to be able to recognize collective nouns in order to maintain subject-verb agreement.
    A collective noun is similar to a non-countable noun, and is roughly the opposite of a countable
    noun.
    In each of the following sentences, the highlighted word is a collective noun:
    i) The flock of geese spends most of its time in the pasture. (The collective noun "flock" takes
    the singular verb "spends")
    ii) The jury is dining on take-out chicken tonight.
    iii) The army is handling the problem of terrorism.
    List of some common Collective nouns

    Army
    Array
    Audience
    Band
    Bevy
    Board
    Bunch
    Cast
    Choir/Chorus
    Class
    Committee
    Corporation
    Council
    Crowd
    Department
    Faculty
    Family
    Firm
    Group
    Jury
    Majority
    Minority
    Party
    Public
    Society
    Staff
    Team
    Troupe

    Possessive Noun
    When we want to show that something belongs to somebody or something, we usually add ('s)
    to a singular noun and an apostrophe to a plural noun.
    For example:

    the boy's ball (one boy)


    the boys' ball (two or more boys)

    Noun as an Adjective
    As you know, a noun is a person, place or thing, and an adjective is a word that describes a noun.
    Sometimes we use a noun to describe another noun. In that case, the first noun acts as an
    adjective.
    Examples

    Race horse
    War story
    Tennis ball
    In some exceptional cases you can have several consecutive nouns acting as adjectives.
    For example

    Argentina football team coach


    In the above sentence 'Argentina', 'football', and 'team' are all nouns acting as adjectives
    modifying the final noun 'coach'.

    Even more interestingly, 'football' is a noun that is made up from two nouns 'foot' and 'ball'.
    This is how words develop in a language!
    Summary

    Noun - the name of a person, place or thing


    Common Noun refers to a general group
    Proper Noun refers to a particular item in a group
    Countable Nouns can be counted (bottle, calculators, etc.)
    Uncountable Nouns cannot be counted (oxygen, milk, etc.)
    Collective Noun group of items which are referred to in the singular (army, family, etc.)
    Possessive Noun use apostrophe to show possession
    Nouns as Adjectives race horse, cricket ball, etc.

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