TYPES OF NOUNS

TYPES OF NOUNS
1. COMMON NOUN
is a name used to identify people, places, things, creatures or ideas
of ordinary quality; without special rank or position.
For example:
boy, town, table, tiger, opinion
2. PROPER NOUN
is a special name for an individual people, places, things or creatures and spelt with a capital letter.
For example:
Ahmad, Kota Bharu, The Mall, Jumbo the Elephant
3. ABSTRACT NOUN
is a thing that is intangible ie. cannot be touched. We cannot see it, yet we can feel, talk, think and perhaps even write or argue about.
For example:
happiness, speech, idea, air, education
4. COLLECTIVE NOUN
is a noun that is grammatically singular and denotes a collection or number of individuals be it people, places, things or creatures taken to be as one.
For example:
a crowd of spectators
a cluster of villages
a pile of books
a herd of cows