Noun 93
Noun 93
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NOUN
“Noun is a naming word”
Classification:
Proper Noun:
“It denotes the name of a person, place or thing”
Eg. Noida, James, Shakespeare, Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost,
Key : a. It’s always written in uppercase
b. We never use a/an before it. “zero article”
Common Noun:
“It denotes the quality possessed by all”
Eg. chauffeur, arsonist, anarchist, autobiographer, theist and funambulist
Key: a. we always use a/ an before singular countable noun
Eg. They don’t want to discuss their ideology to anarchist (R)
They don’t want to discuss their ideology to an anarchist (W)
Collective Noun:
“It denotes the collection of people, things or animals”
Eg. Army - Ants/Soldiers School - Fish
Trail - Ants Herd - Animals (fierce)
Quiver - Arrows Flock - Animals (mild)
Volley - Arrows/Bullets Flock - Birds
Jury - Judges Flight - Birds (flying)
Mob - People (Purposeful) Pride - Lions
Crowd - People (purposeless) Swarm - Insects
Material Noun :
“It denotes material and its base features “
E.g. water, gold, copper, wood, cloth, plastic etc.
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Abstract Noun:
“It denotes mental state, feelings and emotions.”
Eg. Goodness, kindness, love, improvement, quality etc
Key: a. We never use a/an before it because it is uncountable
b. We never make plural of it by adding s/es
USAGES OF NOUN
4. A few nouns have either singular or plural verb without changing their forms
Eg. sheep, swine, series, species, fish, mischief, innings, headquarters, offspring, deer,
cod, trout, salmon, aircraft and spacecraft, etc.
Eg. a. Sheep is grazing by the river.
b. Sheep are grazing by the river.
c. It is difficult for any team to win the match in the fourth innings.
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A few nouns represents beauty, gracefulness and gentleness are treated feminine
Eg the moon, the earth, nature, spring, nation, and ship etc,
Eg. The moon throws her beautiful rays on the earth
A few nouns represents strength, firmness and energy are treated masculine
Eg, the sun, time, death, winter, wind, summer, thunder, ocean, war and wine etc.
Eg. Death always knows his victims
2. Objective
“If noun functions as object of a verb”
Eg. All the teachers appreciated Jenny
3. Possessive
Possessive case can be written with the help of apostrophe ‘s’[‘s ], apostrophe [‘] and
“of”
Rule 1. If noun is living we use [‘s] to make possessive case.
Eg. John’s poetry, children’s game, men’s kit, boy’s novel.
Rule 2. If noun ends with hiss sound either singular or plural we use apostrophe [‘ ] to
make possessive case to hiss sound
Eg. Boys’ school, girls’ hostel, doctors’ strike, workers’ union, Conscience’ sake, peace’
sake, Moses’ laws, goodness’ sake Oedipus’s complex etc.
Rule 3. Apostrophe is used with certain expressions of “time/ place/
personification/weight/idioms” etc.
Eg. `Nature’ law, the moon’s beauty, the sun’s rays, India’s hero, a ton’s weight, a day’s
journey, at finger’s end, and stone’s throw etc.
Rule 4. We use “of” at the place of apostrophe [‘s] to make possessive case.
Eg. the leg of table, the door of house and the wheel of cart etc
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