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) Abstract 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) ABSTRACT NOUN

DEFINITION: Abstract 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 Abstract Nouns can make from many kinds of adjective, verb and common noun.

a) Abstract Noun makes from adjective.

Adjective	Abstractive Noun
dark poor wise honest	darkness poverty wisdom honesty

b) Abstract Noun makes from verb.

Verb	Abstractive Noun
hope regret help promise	hope regret help promise

c) Abstract Noun is quite different from verb.

Verb	Abstractive Noun
live die know advise	life death knowledge advice

Verb Abstractive Noun

d) Abstract 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…