TYPES OF NOUNS

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We can classify nouns as types. Sometimes a noun may fit into more than one type or class, depending on how it is used :

- Concert nouns : They name physical objects that our senses can perceive (table, war, poverty,..)

- Abstract nouns : They're words for ideas, concepts, processes or feeling (peace, war, poverty,..)

- Count nouns : A count noun is one that can be counted and be made plural (student, students)
The following words are count - nouns:
child foot mouse person tooth
children feet mice people teeth

- Non - count nouns: Non - count nouns are nouns that can not be counted, they can be divided into three groups:
The following words are non - count nouns:
air - economics - food - homework – information - mathematics - measles - meat - money - news - physics - politics - sand – soap.





* Actual masses such as : water, oil, gas, earth, metal, cheese, butter, bread,…
* Abstract nouns such as peace, war, poverty, health,…
* Concert objects grouped under more general names such as furniture, clothing, underwear, equipment, ‘’non - count noun’’ (a glass if milk-two glasses of milk-)

- Proper nouns : They are used for individual persons, places, or thing.

- Common nouns: They're used for members of a large class of similar items (a man, a river,.)

- Compound nouns : They're made up of two nouns. (Bedroom, bookcase, airport, catbird...)

- Collective nouns : They're made of words representing a group of people, animals, or objects considered as a single unit. ( family, team, crowd, herd of cattle, flock of sheep, kit of tools, set of dishes, pack of gum,...)