Are you familiar with nouns? If not, then this article will help you to familiarize them. We will be discussing what is noun, most specifically the proper nouns and the common nouns; the categories of nouns and the forms of noun. Take note of them so that when you compose sentences for your essays or narrative reports, you will not be confused on the usage of nouns. All of them will be orderly put and used in your sentence.

What is noun?

Noun is the name of person, a place, a thing or an idea. All that exists has names and those names are called nouns. Giving you examples can let you understand and illustrate fully the meaning of a nouns or nouns. Below are the examples of nouns.

Grandfather, mother, doctor, Mary Jane, baby, London, river, San Juanico Bridge, notebook, computer, lotion, ball pen, keyboard, Carla, Jose, Rico, brother-in-law, etc.

Out from these examples, we can categorize them as proper nouns and common nouns. Among the examples, which one belongs to the proper nouns category? How about the common nouns category?

Mary Jane, London, San Juanico Bridge, Carla, Jose, Rico are the examples of proper nouns. While the grandfather, mother, doctor, baby, river, notebook, computer, lotion, ball pen, keyboard and brother-in-law are the examples of common nouns.

From the example, how can we differentiate a proper noun from a common noun? Proper nouns are the names of the person, place, thing or idea particularly; while common nouns are the names of the person, place, thing or idea which are not usually capitalized.

Categories of nouns

Nouns can be classified into three – count nouns, mass nouns, and collective nouns. Count nouns, it is the name of anything which can be counted; mass nouns, name of something that cannot be counted; and lastly, collective nouns can be a singular form but they are composed of many persons or a group.

Examples:

He is in trouble. The word “trouble” is a non-count noun. Therefore, it is a mass noun.

He has many troubles. The word “troubles” is a count noun. Therefore, it is a count noun.

The team Azkals made the Filipinos proud. The word “team” is a collective noun.

Forms of nouns

There are three forms of nouns:

Subjective – [subject] The college administrator is tall.

Objective – [object] He chose the college administrator.

Possessive – [possessive] The college administrator's car is red.

Upon knowing what is noun well, you can now make your own sentences using nouns without confusion.