Saturday, 20 September 2014
NOUNS
A noun is a name of anything. For examples: pencil, Marcus, tiger, sparrow, London, etc. these are all nouns,
To find the Noun in a sentence, we ask the question, What? or Who? before or after the Verb in the sentence.
For example: Maya saw a dog. (Who saw a dog? Maya = noun)
( Maya saw a what? a dog = noun)
There are four kinds of Nouns:
Common Nouns
Proper nouns
Abstract nouns
Collective nouns
COMMON NOUN
A common noun is a name given in common to every person or thing of the same class or kind.
EXAMPLE: man, village, river, bank, women, and etc.
PROPER NOUN
A proper noun is the special name of a particular person, place, etc.
EXAMPLE: Maya, Batu Kurau, Sabah, Malaysia * A proper noun begins with a Capital Letter.
ABSTRACT NOUN
An abstract noun is the name of something that we can only think or feel but cannot see.
EXAMPLE: I could not read well when I was a child. ( common noun)
I could not read well during my childhood. (abstract noun)
COLLECTIVE NOUN
A collective noun is the name of a number of persons or things taken or thought of as one.
EXAMPLE: a galaxy of beautiful woman