Noun
Noun is a word that is the name of something (such as a person, animal, place, thing, quality, idea, or action) [1].
The noun is the name of a person, place, or thing.
There are four subcategories of the noun category: proper, common, count, and mass.
Proper nouns are names that are capitalized, and all other nouns ‒ are common nouns.
Mass nouns relate to ‘things’ that cannot be counted. It is often possible to turn a mass noun into a count noun by modifying it with an indefinite article, or a numeral, or giving it a plural form, but it usually changes the meaning of the word. Many nouns are both mass and count [Noel Burton-Roberts, 47-49].
The noun can serve as the subject of a verb, the object of a verb or a preposition, or in apposition [3].
We have twelve types of nouns in English:
1. Common Nouns (refer to people, places, things, or ideas in general terms).
2. Proper Nouns (name specific nouns).
3. Concrete Nouns (refer to things that exist physically and can be touched, seen, smelled, felt, or tasted).
4. Abstract Nouns (refer to concepts or feelings that cannot be experienced concretely or touched physically).
5. Collective Nouns (refer to a group of something in particular).
6. Compound Nouns (contain two or more words that join together to make a single noun).
7. Singular Nouns (refer to one person, place or thing).
8. Plural Nouns (refer to more than one person, place or thing).
9. Possessive Nouns (demonstrate a person, place or thing's ownership of something).
10. Countable Nouns (used for things we can count using numbers).
11. Uncountable Nouns (cannot be counted).
12. Material Nouns (refer to materials or substances from which things are made) [4].
⠀ 1. Retrieved from: Britannica Online-dictionary [https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/noun].
⠀ 2. Noel Burton-Roberts. (2011). Analysing sentences: An Introduction to English Syntax. London: Routledge.
⠀ 3. Retrieved from: Vocabulary.com [https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/noun].