A noun is a part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action. A noun can function as a subject, object, complement, appositive, or object of a preposition.

A noun is a part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action. A noun can function as a subject, object, complement, appositive, or object of a preposition.

TYPES OF NOUN

DEFINITION: Noun is a word which is used to name something as a person, animal, thing and place. There are six kinds of noun in English.

1) Proper Noun

2) Common Noun

3) Abstractive Noun

4) Collective Noun

5) Compound Noun

6) Material Noun

1) PROPER NOUN

DEFINITION: Proper Noun is a name of particular thing, person, animal and place. On the other hand, proper noun is always written with a capital letter at the beginning of the word.

Example: Dara, New York, Cambodia, John, Angkor Wat…

2) COMMON NOUN

DEFINITION: Common Noun is a name which is given in common to everyone (person, thing, animal…..).

Example: Man, teacher, doctor, dog, cat, house, chair…

3) ABSTRACTIVE NOUN

DEFINITION: Abstractive Noun is the name of idea, quality and action that is the name of something we can’t touch, see, smell and taste.

Example:

- Idea: Advice, ambition, wish...

- Quality: Goodness, kindness, darkness...

- Action: Talking, movement, discussion..

NOTE: Some Abstractive Nouns can make from many kinds of adjective, verb and common noun.

a) Abstractive Noun makes from adjective.

Adjective	Abstractive Noun
dark poor wise honest	darkness poverty wisdom honesty

b) Abstractive Noun makes from verb.

Verb	Abstractive Noun
hope regret help promise	hope regret help promise

c) Abstractive Noun is quite different from verb.

Verb	Abstractive Noun
live die know advise	life death knowledge advice

Verb Abstractive Noun

d) Abstractive Noun makes from common noun.

Common Noun	Abstractive Noun
man friend hero infant	manhood friendship heroism infancy

4) COLLECTIVE NOUN

DEFINITION: Collective Noun is a name of number or collection of person, thing and animal taken together and spoken as a whole.

Example: Army, committee, family, nation, association, community…

5) COMPOUND NOUN

DEFINITION: Compound Nouns are the nouns that are combined between one word with another word and can make from many kinds of noun, adjective and verb.

Noun/ Adjective/verb	Noun	Common Noun
sun strong walking	light man stick	sunlight strongman walking-stick

6) MATERIAL NOUN

DEFINITION: Material Noun is the name of particular object.

Example: Chair, table, car, book, pen, house, radio…

Related Page:

What is a noun?

Type of nouns in English grammar

What is a Common Noun?

What is a Proper Noun?

What is a Compound Noun?

Countable and Uncountable Nouns?

What is a Collective Noun?

Collective Noun with Examples

What is a Concrete Noun?

What are Abstract Nouns?

Abstract Noun Examples & List