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EugeneOfALittleTown Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Nouns

Hi clever people!
would you please tell me about types of nouns existing in Englisn?
  

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We have proper nouns, which are capitalized: John, The Empire State Building, Chicago, The Red Sox, The New York Times, General Electric, PepsiCola. We have common nouns, which are not capitalized: dog, boys, truck, busses, people, buildings, clouds. " Abstract nouns are ideas, like love, peace, honor, fear.

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  • We have proper nouns, which are capitalized: John, The Empire State Building, Chicago, The Red Sox, The New York Times, General Electric, PepsiCola.
  • We have common nouns, which are not capitalized: dog, boys, truck, busses, people, buildings, clouds.
  • " Abstract nouns are ideas, like love, peace, honor, fear.
  • We have nouns called "gerunds" which are made from verbs, or action words: walking, swimming, eating, fighting.
  • I'm sure there are many other types and classifications of nouns.
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We have proper nouns, which are capitalized: John, The Empire State Building, Chicago, The Red Sox, The New York Times, General Electric, PepsiCola.

We have common nouns, which are not capitalized: dog, boys, truck, busses, people, buildings, clouds.

We sometimes divide common nouns into "abstract nouns" and "concrete nouns."
Abstract nouns are ideas, like love, peace, honor
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It's an interesting question.

Here are some ideas on different classifications of nouns

- proper vs. common nouns
- count, non-count (mass), and collective nouns

- abstract vs. concrete nouns
- simple vs. compound nouns
- verbal nouns (gerunds, infinitives)

- noun clauses

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thank you so much! your help is unvaluated!
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