What are Nouns?

A noun is a naming word. Nouns have gender, number and case. 1) Common noun - is a word used to name any person, animal, thing or place belonging to a certain category: sailor, girl, city, dog 2) Proper noun - is a name of particular person, animal, place or thing. It always begins with a capital letter: Brisbane, Colorado, Andrea, Telstra 3) Collective noun - is the name given to a number of persons or things considered as a group: class, mob, audience, herd 4) Abstract noun - is a word used to name a quality or feelings: happiness, luck, fear, hope Number Nouns may be either singular or plural. a) A singular noun is a name of one person, animal, place or thing: table, captain. Alex, sadness b) A plural noun is a name of more than one person, thing, place or thing: tables, captains, laws, keys Gender A noun may be masculine, feminine, neuter or common (either masculine or feminine). a) masculine - referring to male creatures: boy, man, son, king b) feminine - referring to feminine creatures: girl, daughter, hen, ewe c) neuter - referring to things that have no sex: mountain, river, bike, computer d) common - referring to either sex: teacher, friend, kitten, child