Names a person, place, thing, or idea (e.g., dog, house, happiness).
Count Nouns
Nouns that can be counted as individual items are referred to as count nouns.
Ex: Hen - Hens
Incorrect: The woman who were working on the magazine received
awards for design, layout, and content development.
Explanation: The count noun is the subject of the plural verb were, so the two must agree.
Correct: The women who were working on the magazine received
awards for design, layout, and content development.
Non-count Nouns
When something cannot be counted directly, we call these non-count nouns. These
nouns do not have a plural form.
Non-count nouns do not pluralize.
Incorrect: Our teacher gives us a lot of homeworks.
Explanation: Homework is a non-count noun, so it cannot take a plural form.
Correct: Our teacher gives us a lot of homework.
Irregular Noun Plurals:
There are some common exceptions to the plural rules for nouns.
Some of them include:
tooth - teeth
man - men
mouse - mice
woman - women
child - children
Some other count nouns do not have a plural form.
Some of these include:
fish - fish
moose - moose
aircraft - aircraft
means - means
Incorrect: Deers come in our yard and eat all our flowers.
Correct: Deer come in our yard and eat all our flowers.
1. How many person are in your class?
a. This sentence is correct.
b. This sentence contains an incorrect noun plural.
2. We have a lot of fish in the freezer.
a. This sentence is correct.
b. This sentence contains an incorrect noun plural.
Abstract Nouns
Many abstract nouns are formed by adding suffixes (-ness, -ity, -tion) to adjectives or verbs to
make a noun form. Examples are happiness, formality, and gradation.
Some nouns take one suffix and not another. extensiveness not extensivity centrality not
centralness
Incorrect: The new office arrangement increased the productiveness of the staff.
Correct: The new office arrangement increased the productivity of the staff.
Kinds of Nouns :
1) Proper Noun
2) Common Noun
Concrete Nouns
3) Collective Noun
4) Material Noun
5) Abstract Noun -
1) Proper Noun:
Names that specifically refer to a single person, place, or thing are called
Proper Nouns.
Ex: Manohar, Raviteja, The Godavari, Agra, Paris, The Vindhyas.
2) Common Noun : Same Common nouns are names that belong to every object or person in a
genus. Ex: man, girl, cow, camel, house, school, book, pen, tree, ship.
3) Collective Noun: Collective Nouns denote groups of people, animals, or things. Ex Army,
Crowd, Herd
1. An army of soldiers.
2. A band of musicians.
3. A bevy of girls.
4. A board of directors.
5. A basket of fruits.
6. A bench of judges.
7. A brood of chickens.
4) Material Noun:
in a single mass, solid, liquid, or gas without separate parts
a) Names of substances that accumulate: rice, sugar, sand, grass, etc.
b) Names of substances that form lumps: gold, mud, jaggery, curd, etc.
c) Names of substances that are liquid: milk, honey, water, oil, etc.
d) Names of substances that are gaseous: air, oxygen, nitrogen, etc.
5. Abstract Nouns: Names of qualities such as goodness, badness, white, red, length, width,
etc.; names of actions such as walking, seeing, flying, etc.; names of states such as poverty,
childhood, happiness, etc.; names of sciences such as grammar, music, astrology, etc. are
called Abstract Nouns.
qualities: goodness, cleverness, wisdom, honesty, truth, whiteness, length, breadth, height,
bravery
actions : walk, sight, flight, pain, choice, protection, punishment
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