What is Noun? | English Grammar and Literature | Forum

Noun (parts of speech) is a word used to name person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea.

          Ex.  Persons (Neil Armstrong, singers, driver,neighbor, student)

                 Places    (church, school, Philippines, Pampanga, Manila)

                Things     (bed, car, pencil, book, computer, stove, chair)

                 Ideas      (love, comfort, knowledge, peace)

Noun Clause -contains a subject and verb and can do anything that a noun can do.

           Ex. What she does for this town is a blessing.

Noun Phrase – is a group of related words acting as a noun.

           Ex. the oil depletion allowance

Form of Nouns

   1. Singular nouns refer to one object.

            Ex. mango, book, bed, car

   2. Plural Nouns refer to two or more objects.

            Ex. magoes, books, beds, cars

Types of Nouns

Common Noun is a noun referring to a person, place, or thing in a general sense. Usually, it could be written in a capiltal letter only when it begins a sentence.

             Ex. inventor, city, book, month

Proper Noun is always starts with capital letter, since the noun represents the name of a specific person, place, thing, or idea.

             Ex. Bella Swan, Pampanga, July, University of the Philippines

Abstract Noun is a name ideas, qualities, or feelings that cannot be seen or touched.

             Ex. Justice often slip out of our grasp.

Concrete Noun is a nuoun which names anything that can be percieve through the physical senses like touch, sight, taste, hearing or smell.

             Ex. Whenever they take the dog to the beach it spends hours chasing waves.

Compound Noun are nouns that are made up of two or more words.

             Ex. door +  knob = doorknob (one word)

                   runner-up (hyphenated)

                   dining room (more than one word)

Collective Nouns are noun naming group of things, animals, or persons. It is important to remember that a collective noun usually takes a singular verb.

             Ex. audience, flock, family, committee, crowd, swarm, class, team,

                   orchestra, platoon, bunch, collection, group, troop, jury, club

Count Noun is a noun with both a singular and a plural form, and it names anything (or anyone) that can be counted.

             Ex. The mango tree lost three branches in the hurricane.

Mass Noun is a noun which does not have a singular and a plural form, and which refers to something that could not usually count.

             Ex. Oxgen is essential to human life.

                   We didn't do much shopping.

                   We listened to some music.

Gender of Nouns

Masculine refers to a persons or animals of male sex.

             Ex. man fahter, uncle, lad king, groom, actor, gander

Feminine refers to a persons or animals of female sex.

             Ex. woman, motheer, auntie, lass, queen, bride actress, goose

Nueter refers to objects with no sex.

             Ex. tree, table, watch, car, slipper

Common refers to nouns that are either male or female.

             Ex. cousin, teenager, doctor, cook, parent, friend, colleague, dog

Functions of Nouns

Subject  – a noun or pronoun partnered with a predicate verb.

              Ex. April ate some apples.

                  subject    

Object of Preposition (OP) – a noun or a proun answering "whom" or "what" after a preposition in a prepositional phrase.

                                              (preposition)

              Ex. April ate some apples with her friends.

                                                                    (OP)      

Direct Object – a noun or pronoun answering "whom" or "what" after an action verb. A direct object "receives" or is the "object" of the action.

              Ex. April ate some apples.

                                          (DO)    

Indirect Object (IO) – a noun or pronoun answering "to whom/what" or "for whom/what" after an action verb.

              Ex. April gave Andrea some apples.

                                      (IO)