A noun is a naming word. It identifies people, places, or things.
There are four types of nouns:
1. Common Nouns
Common nouns are names given to ordinary objects.
They can be identified by ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’.
Examples: the shoe, a kitchen, an apple.
2. Proper Nouns
Proper nouns are names given to people, places, days, months, ideologies, subjects or titles.
They always begin with capital letters.
Examples: July, China, Friday.
3. Pronouns
Pronouns are substitutes for nouns, taking the place of nouns that precede or follow them.
Examples: I, hers, myself, who.
We have four types of pronouns:
- Personal pronouns indicate a person or group. Examples: he, she, they
- Possessive pronouns indicate ownership. Examples: his, hers, theirs
- Relative pronouns introduce dependent clauses in sentences. Examples: who, whoever, that, which, when, where, whose
- Reflexive pronouns refer back to the subject of the sentence. Examples: himself, herself, myself
4. Abstract Nouns
Abstract nouns refer to something that cannot be seen, touched or measured, such as a feeling or emotion.
Examples: anger, happiness, romance.
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