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...