Archive for the ‘Nouns & Pronouns’ Category

It is the prime intention of all to learn English, the World Language, well. It is his /her dream to master the language and to express it through the speech and writing. But before mastering the language it is better to know the grammar of it. For it is inevitable to learn English grammar to have a keen sense of the language. Without it the learner is nothing but a man groping in the dark from time indefinite.

Among the eight parts of speech the noun comes first as noun is the name of anything whether it is the per... Read more...

Nouns:

Noun is nothing but a word or a group of words used as the name of a class of people (E.g. Teacher, Englishman, Sarah), places (E.g. Park, library, India), things (E.g. Cup, book, milk) of a specific person, place or thing. A noun can either be singular (i.e.) a pen or plural (i.e.) two pens.

Classification of nouns:

Noun can be classified into common nouns and proper nouns, countable and uncountable nouns, collective nouns and concrete and abstract nouns.

Common and Proper nouns:

Common nouns are those which denote a class of entities like city, person and planet as against Proper nouns which denotes unique entities like India, John, and Jupiter. Common nouns are generic and proper nouns are more specific.

Countable and uncountable nouns:

Countable nouns are those which can take a plural word and can combine with quantifiers and numerals for example, one, four, every, most and several.  A countable noun can take an indefinite article (a or an). Examples for countable nouns are nose, occasion and chair. Uncountable nouns are also called as mas... Read more...