Grammar Basics: Noun
Noun: A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, or an abstract idea. Nouns tell you about the ‘whats’ ‘whos’ and ‘wheres’about the language. Let's see an example: TG and Dagny went to Maxims to order a chocolate truffle cake . TG and Dagny are persons, Maxims is a place and chocolate truffle cake is a thing. Nouns can be broadly classified into Common nouns Proper nouns Concrete Nouns Abstract Nouns Countable Nouns Non Countable Nouns Collective Nouns Common Noun: A common noun is a noun referring to a person, place or thing in a general sense. Usually you write a common noun with a capital letter only when a common noun begins a sentence . Go to the garden . (place) Pass me my phone . (thing) Call the police . (people) Milk the cow . (animal) Proper Noun: Proper noun represents the name of a specific person, place, or thing. The names of days of the week, months, historical documents, institutions, organizations, religions, their holy texts an...