NOUN

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DEFINITION OF NOUN
Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea. In linguistic, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as nouns have sometimes been defined in terms of the grammatical categories to which they are subject (classed by gender, inflected for case and number). Such definitions tend to be language-specific, since nouns do not have the same categories in all languages.

 Noun are is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events and feelings. Nouns can be a subject or an object of a verb, can be modified by an adjective and can take an article or determiner. For example: Table Pencil The dog A white house

CATEGORIES OF NOUN
1. Proper nouns and Common nouns
Main articel : Proper noun A proper noun or proper name is noun representing unique entities (such as Erth, India, Jupiter, Harry or BMW ), as distinguished from common nouns which describe a class of entities ( such as city, animal, planet, person or car).

2. Countable and ancountable nouns

a) Count nous or countable nouns are common nouns that can take a plural, can combine with numerals or counting quantifiers and can take an indefinite articel such as a or an. b) Mass nouns or uncountable nouns differ from count nouns in precisely that respect: they cannot take plurals or combine with number words or the above type of quantifiers. For example, it is not possible to refer to a furnitures.

3. Collective nouns
Collective nouns are nouns that refer to groups consisting of more than one individual or entity, even when they are inflected for the singular. Example include committe, herd, and school (of fish). These nouns have slightly different grammatical properties than other nouns. For example, the nouns phrases that they head can serve as the subject of a collective prediconcrete nouns and abstract nouns.

4. Concrete nouns and Abstract nouns

Concrete nouns refer to physical entities that can, in principle at least, be observed by at least one of the senses ( for instance, chair, apple ). Abstract nouns on the other hand, refer to abstract objects; that is ideas or concept (such as justice or hatred).

5. Noun phrases and Pronouns

Noun phrases A noun phrase is a phrase based on a noun, pronoun, or other noun-like word (nominal) optionally accompanied by modifiers such as determiners and adjectives. Pronoun nouns and noun phrases can typically be replaced by pronouns, such as he, it, which, and those, in order to avoid repetition or explicit idntification, or for other reasons.