Noun and its Types

This video is all about nouns. A noun is a word that refers to a thing (book), a person (Abhishek), an animal (cat), a place (Delhi), a quality (softness), an idea (justice).

 There are a number of different categories of nouns.

 There are common nouns and proper nouns. 

A common noun refers to a person, place, or thing but is not the name of a particular person, place, or thing. Examples are animal, sunlight, and happiness. 

A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place, or thing; it usually begins with a capital letter: Abraham Lincoln, Argentina, and World War I are all proper nouns.

 A collective noun is a noun that names a group of people or things, such as flock or squad. An attributive noun is a noun that modifies another noun that immediately follows it, such as business in business meeting. These nouns look like adjectives but they're not.

 For learners of English, the most important feature of a noun is whether it can be counted. A count noun is a noun that can be used after a or an or after a number Count nouns have both singular and plural. "A letter for you is on the table. Letters for you arrive regularly." Sometimes the plural form of a count noun is the same as its singular form, as in "I saw a deer in my yard yesterday. There are a lot of deer in the woods near my house."

 A noncount noun refers to something that cannot be counted. "The information was unclear."