 NOUNS, KINDS OF NOUNS, and THE EXAMPLES

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 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
 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.
 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.
 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
 Abstrack Nouns
 Concrete Nouns
 Material nouns
 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 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
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
Adjective Suffix Abstract Noun

Honest y Honesty

Clear ly Clearly

Kind ness Kindness

 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 coffie

Proper Noun 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
 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.

 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
 Compound noun is a noun formed by
combining two or more words.

 Example : Zizi buit a bird house

proper noun Coumpound Noun

 Her grandmother live in Olive Brook

coumpound noun coumpound Noun
 Compound noun maybe written as one word.

Example : birdhouse – bird + house

postcard – post + card
waterfall – water + fall
manservan – man + servan
 A compound noun maybe written as separate
words.

 Example : fire station

United Kingdom
board of member
 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
 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.
 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.
 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

 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
 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.