Kinds of Nouns

There are various kinds of nouns used to name person,

animals, things and ideas. Here we will review and take a
quick look at all kinds of nouns so you can use them
properly in your sentences.
All Kinds of nouns in English.
1. Proper Nouns.
Proper Nouns are used to refer to specific person,
place or thing.
A proper noun always starts with a capital letter. These
nouns also refer to the names of the days of week and
months, and also various names of organization,
institution, religious, etc. Which are proper and specific.
Ali
Pakistan
Hazara Town
2. Common Nouns
Proper nouns refer to general, unspecific person,
place or thing.
Boys
Girls
Students
3. Compound Nouns
A compound noun is a noun which contains two or
more words which join together to make a single

noun is called compound noun.

A compound noun can be written together, Such as
Football can be hyphenated such as six-pack,
Mother-in-law or separate words such as Post
office.
Classroom
Paper-clip
Police station
4. Collective Nouns
A Collective noun is a noun which refers to a group
of people or group of something in a specific
manner or unit.
Family
Audience
People
Note: Collective nouns can be either singular or plural,
consider the examples below.
Our team is playing the final on Friday.
Our class graduates two years ago.
5. Concrete Nouns
A concrete noun is a noun which can be touched,
smelled, seen, felt or tasted.
Concrete nouns can be countable or uncountable,
common noun, proper noun or collective nouns can be
concrete noun.

 Plate
Chair
Water
6. Abstract Nouns
Abstract nouns are the names of things that you
can perceive or recognize with your five senses.
Freedom
Love
Happiness
7. Material Nouns
Material nouns refer to material or substance out
of which things are made.
Gold
Silver
Iron
8. Pronoun
Personal pronouns are types of nouns that take the
place of nouns which are referring to people,
places or things are called pronouns.
I
He
She

 It
They
9. Countable nouns
Countable nouns are the nouns which can be
counted. These nouns can be used in both the
singular and plural forms, When used as plural
forms they can be counted.
Friends
Chairs
She had a pet dog. Dog is also a countable noun as
its plural is dogs.
10. Uncountable Nouns
Uncountable nouns are the nouns which cannot be
counted and have only singular form.
These nouns are exact opposite of countable nouns.
Water
Rice
Sugar