NOUNS, KINDS OF NOUNS, and THE EXAMPLES HAPPY READING PBIS4114
Jun 26, 2015
NOUNS, KINDS OF NOUNS, and THE EXAMPLES
HAPPY READING
PBIS4114
Nouns
A noun is a word used as name for a
person, place, animal or thing. (You might
like to think of nouns as naming words.)
Sometimes a noun will be the name for
something we can touch (e.g., lion, cake,
computer), and sometimes a noun will be
the name for something we cannot touch
(e.g., bravery, mile, joy).
EXAMPLE NOUNS
P – People : soldier, Alan, cousin, Frenchman.
A – Animal : rat, zebra, lion.
P – Places : house, London, factory, shelter.
A – Action : cooking, barking, reading, listening, crowing.
M – Meansure : month - inch - day - pound – ounce.
O – Objects : table - frame - printer – chisel.
S – Substances : lead - nitrogen - water – ice.
Q – Qualities : kindness - beauty - bravery - wealth – faith.
1. COMMON NOUN
2. PROPER NOUN
3. COLLECTIVE NOUN
4. COUMPOUND NOUN
KINDS OF NOUNS
Common Noun is general name for the
same kind of things, person or places.
Common Nouns are spelled in small letters.
ex: friend, city, monument.
Common Nouns
A proper noun is a special name, that names a particular
person, place or thing.
A proper noun can be made up of more than one world. Ex:
Sunset Palace.
A proper noun always begins with a capital letter.
Proper noun include;
The names of days of the week: Sunday, Monday, etc.
Names of months of the year: January, May, December, etc.
Proper Nouns
Fleck has a friend called Roy. CN PR
Bandung is a beautiful city.PN CN
The Sunset Palace is an old monument.PN CN
Jayawijaya is one of the higest mountain in Indonesia. PN CN
Common Noun or Prover Noun
Abstrack Nouns
Concrete Nouns
Material nouns
Types of Common Noun
abstract noun is a noun that refers to a quality, idea or feeling. It is a thing that we cannot see or touch, but can only think of, hear or feel it.
Example: Honesty – refers to quality of a person.
Belief – refers to idea of a person. Joy – it is on of kind filling of a
person.
Another example: bravery, strength, patience, happiness, kindness, friendship, knowlege, etc.
Abstract Nouns
Abstract nouns often formed from adjectives, verbs and common nouns.
We add suffixes to form abstract nouns.
◦ Example: Dark + ness = darkness Adjectives N. suffixes abstract noun
Observe + action = observation Verb N. suffixes abstract noun
King + ship = king ship C. Noun N. Suffixes abstract noun
Formation of Abstract Nouns
Noun can be formed from a common noun
Common Noun Suffix Abstract Noun
Poet ry Poetry
Human Nity Humanity
Leader ship Leadership
Verb Suffix Abstract Noun
realise tion realisation
punish ment punishment
deny al denial
Abstract Noun can be formed from a verb
Adjective Suffix Abstract Noun
Honest y Honesty
Clear ly Clearly
Kind ness Kindness
Abstract Noun can be formed adjective
A concrect noun is a noun that refers to a thing that we can both see or touch.
Example : boy, lion, car, tree.
Santi likes to drink coffieProper Noun concrect nouns
Concrect Nouns
Material noun is a substance, a material or an ingredient we can see and touch which is used for making things.
Example : gold, coal, wheat, rubber, etc. Material Noun ussually uncountable noun. Example : This window is made of glass.
Common Noun Material Noun
Material noun become a common noun if there is an article berfore it. e.g.The glass.Or the Noun is in the plural ex: glasses
MATERIAL NOUN
Metal : iron, gold, platinum, etc.
Products measured in bulk : tea, sugar, rice, wheat, etc.
Geological bodies : mud, sand, granite, rock, etc.
Natural phenomena : rain, dew, clod, frost, mist, etc.
Items manufactured : clothes, soap, rubber, paint, etc.
Group of Material Noun
Honesty is the best policy. Abstract Noun
Diamond is known for its hardness. Abstract Noun
Jack bought a car. concrete noun
The cakes are decorated. Concrete noun
The cupboard is made of iron.Material noun
My mother made some delicious honey candies. Material noun
Example abstract, concrete, & material nouns.
Compound noun is a noun formed by combining two or more words.
Example : Zizi buit a bird houseproper noun Coumpound Noun
Her grandmother live in Olive Brook coumpound noun coumpound Noun
COMPOUND NOUNS
Compound noun maybe written as one word.
Example : birdhouse – bird + housepostcard – post + cardwaterfall – water + fallmanservan – man + servan
How to write Coumpound Noun 1
A compound noun maybe written as separate words.
Example : fire station
United Kingdom
board of member
How to write Coumpound Noun 2
A coumpound noun may also be written with hyphens joining the words.
Example : great-grandmother
five-year-old
twenty-one
mother-inlaw
court-matrial
paper-clip
How to write Coumpound Noun 3
Example : Uncle Jim has a herd of cows. collective noun
The dog gave birth to a litter of puppies. collective noun
A noun, such as a herd of litter, wich is the
name of a group or collection of the same
kind of person, animals or things, i called a
collective noun.
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
A flock of sheep a set of tools collective noun CN collective noun CN
A crowd of people a fleet of ships collective noun CN collective noun CN
Berdasarkan contoh di atas pengertian collective
nouns adalah grup atau kumpulan dari Common
Nouns.
Example of collective nouns
A Collective noun can be used by it self or
along with the noun that it is made up of.
Example :
The crownd cheered for the group of
singgers
collective noun collective noun
common noun
by it self along with noun
Using Collective Nouns 1
A singgle Collective Noun can be used for
different nouns. Example : bunch
A bunch of flowers CV. N CN
A buch of grapes CV. N CN
A buch of keys CV. N CN
Using Collective Nouns 2
Two different collective noun can be used
for a singgle noun.
Example :
A buch of flowers
A bouquet of flowers
Buch and bouquet refers to groups of
flowers.
Using Collective Nouns 3