Noun
A noun is the name of a thing, a place, a person, a quality, or an idea
The different types of nouns are
1. Proper nouns: Names of particular persons or places, such as George, Meena, Delhi, Nepal, and so on are called proper nouns. A proper noun always begins with a capital letter.
2. Common nouns: General names for people animals, things, or objects that belong to a common class, such as man, woman, goat, horse, house, school, sugar, iron, and so on are called common nouns.
3. Collective nouns: Names of things, objects, and persons that are referred to as a group, such as people, team, nation, herd, swarm, and so on are called collective nouns
4. Material nouns: Words that refer to substances or materials, such as sugar, water, salt, oil, copper, gold, silver, and so on are known as material nouns.
5. Abstract nouns: Words that refer to qualities, conditions, ideas, actions, feelings, and emotions, such as beauty, poverty knowledge, wisdom, work, anger, love, and so on are known as abstract nouns.
Abstract nouns can be of two types:
1. Attributive nouns: Names of qualities, characteristics, or attributes are called attributive nouns, Such nouns can be formed from adjectives and nouns, for example, poverty (from the adjective poor), knighthood (from the common noun knight), scholarship (from the common noun scholar), and so on.
2. Verbal nouns: Nouns that are made from verbs are known as verbal nouns, such as examiner (from examine), designer (from design), walking (from walk), and so on.
6. Countable Nouns: Nouns that can be counted are called countable nouns.
Examples: books, pens, pencils, persons, chairs, tables, and so on.
Countable nouns can be classified as follows:
1. Singular - Examples: a cup, a man, a cat, a chair, and so on.
2 Plural - Examples two cups, five men, twenty cats, fifteen chairs, and so on.
7. Uncountable Nouns: Nouns that denote materials, substances, ideas or concepts, feelings, and emotions cannot be counted. Such nouns are uncountable nouns.
For example, we cannot count:
- sugar, bread, milk, cheese, water
- love, hatred, tolerance, sadness, knowledge, travel
- news, burden, load, responsibility, information
- furniture luggage
- gas, fuel, electricity
- money, wealth
Noun Case
Case is that property of a noun or a pronoun that gives information about the role it plays in a sentence.
There are four types of case in English.
1. Subjective or nominative case: When a noun or pronoun occupies the position of the subject in a sentence it is said to be in the nominative case You may ask the question what or who to get the nominative case.
Example: Wasim bought the ice cream for Nimmi.
2. Accusative or objective case: When a noun plays the role of direct it is said to be in the objectier case. You can ask the question what or who get the accusative or objective case.
Example: Wasim bought the ice cream for Nimmi.
3. Dative case: When a noun or a pronoun plays the role of an indirect object in a sentence it is said to be in the detine case. The noun that answers the question to whom or for whom is in the dative case.
Example: Wasim bought the ice cream for Nimmi.
4. Genitive or Possessive case: When a noun or a pronoun shows possession or association it is said to be in the possessive case The noun that answers the question case whose in a sentence is in the possessiv.
Example: Mohan's book is with me.
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