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Sunday 18 March 2012

Noun

There is no fixed definition of Noun. Simply, a noun is a person, place, thing or idea.
Examples
Person: man, woman, teacher, doctor, John
Place: home, office, town, country, India
Thing: table, car, banana, money, music, love, dog, monkey

Countable Nouns

Countable nouns are things that can be counted. For example: Book. You can count the number of books. You may have one, two, three or ten books.
  • Countable nouns can be singular or plural.
  • Countable nouns use indefinite article a/an.
  • Some and Any are used with countable nouns.
  • A few and Many are also used with countable noun.

Uncountable Nouns

Uncountable nouns are things which cannot be counter. For example: Milk. You can count bottles of milk or litres of milk, but cannot count milk itself.
  • Uncountable nouns are treated as singular.
  • Indefinite article a/an is not used with uncountable nouns.
  • Some and Any are used with uncountable nouns.
  • A little and Much are used with uncountable nouns.

Common and Proper Nouns

A common noun is any non-specific person, place or thing.
A proper noun is any specific person, place or thing: such as names, places, companies.
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