Tips & Tricks: Noun - Tips & Tricks for Government Exams - Bank Exams

Introduction

A noun is a naming word. It is a part of speech and can be defined as a name of a person, place, animal, bird, feeling or a thing.

• Person – the name of a person: Dinesh, Sagar, Jacob, Sheetal
• Animal/ Bird – the name of an animal/ bird: lion, cat, dog,
• Place – the name of a place: Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Paris.
• Thing –the name of a thing: orange, laptop, table, book
• Feeling – the name of an idea: devotion, superstition, happiness, excitement, etc.

Types

• Proper Noun
  A proper noun is a unique name that refers only to a single person, place, or thing. While writing, a proper noun always begins with a capital letter, even in the middle of the sentence.
• Common Noun
  A common noun is a generic or common name for something that can refer to many things, person, or places. So, a Common Noun and a Proper Noun are opposite in nature.
• Abstract Noun
  An abstract noun is a noun for something that is intangible. It cannot be seen but it exists like ideas, qualities, and conditions.
• Concrete Noun
  A concrete noun is a noun for something tangible. It is exactly the opposite of the Abstract Noun. So, it refers to everything that we can see and touch physically.
• Countable Noun
  The noun that can be counted to represent a definite number is called Countable Noun/ Finite Noun. Countable nouns need an article in prefix: a, an, the.
• Uncountable Noun
  Uncountable Noun/ Infinite Noun are nouns that cannot be counted to represent a definite number. Uncountable Noun/ Infinite Noun is exactly opposite to Countable Noun/ Finite Noun.
• Collective Noun
  A collective noun is a word that refers to a group of things, people, or animals, etc. Collective nouns can be plural or singular.
• Compound Noun
  Sometimes we have to combine two or more words to create a new word of compound nature. They are also called idiomatic compound nouns. These compound nouns behave as a single unit to convey the unit.

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