What a Noun means?

Every word in English belongs to a family. The name of that family is called "parts of speech". There are 10 such families or groups or categories, and every word in English will fall under any of such of these 10 categories.

We will see each family one by one now.

1. Noun.
2. Pronoun
3. Article
4. Auxiliary
5. Verb
6. Adjective
7. Adverb
8. Preposition
9. Conjunction
10. Interjection

Every word in English language has one job in a sentence. We should understand this first clearly. We cannot put any word anywhere as we like in a sentence, and each word must be placed in a particular compartment in a specified order. Then only that sentence can express some meaning to us.

A noun is a word used to denote a person, place, or thing. We will see some examples now. Robert, Hussain, Woman, Sister, Tailor-see these words denote a PERSON. Singapore, New York, Boulevard, Garden, City-these words denote a PLACE. Television, Car, Computer, Bed, Pen-these words denote a THING.

The Nouns are of four types:

1. Proper Noun
2. Common Noun
3. Collective Noun
4. Abstract Noun

Now I will describe each Noun with examples now.

1. Proper Noun: This noun denotes the name of a specific person or a specific place or a specific country.

E.g.

David-a particular person
New York-a particular place
Mexico-a particular county

2. Common Noun: This noun denotes the name given to a specific thing or a specific person or a specific place.

E.g.

Tree, Chair, Speaker, Rice-specific name given to a THING
Sister, Mother, Father, Girl-specific name given to a PERSON
Boulevard, Garden, City, Town-specific name given to a PLACE

Collective Noun: This noun denotes the name of a specific group of people or animals as a whole.

E.g.

Team, Herd, People, Cattle, Crowd-a collective name to a specific group of people or animals.

Abstract Noun: This noun denotes the name of a quality of state that we cannot feel obviously or touch overtly, but we can recognize it.

E.g.

Love, Sadness, Truth, God, Courage, Fear-a specific quality of state.

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