Everything that you need to know about nouns

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.

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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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