Classification of Nouns

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Classification of Nouns

Nouns may be classified as.

1. Proper Noun - Names an individual or specific person, animal, place or thing.
2. Common Noun - Names a common group or class of persons, animals, places or things.
3. Count Noun - Names things which can be counted.
4. Mass Noun - Names things which cannot be counted.
5. Abstract Noun - Names ideas, qualities, or conditions; names things which cannot be perceived by the senses
6. Concrete Noun - Names objects which can be seen, touched, smelled, tasted or heard.
7. Collective Noun - Names a group which can persons, animals or things which may refer to a whole unit or individual members
8. Compound Noun - Two or more words which may be written as a single word or hyphenated.

[ Source: English Language POWER 6 ; Author: Aida Alfaro and Yolanda Piang]

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