Nouns

Mass Noun

(or noncount noun) refers to something that cannot be counted. These type of nouns are normally not used after the words a or an or after a number. They have only one form and are used with singular verb forms, as in "Portuguese is one of the languages they speak," and "The information was unclear."

Noun 1

Any member of a class of words that typically can be combined with determiners to serve as the subject of a verb, can be interpreted as singular or plural, can be replaced with a pronoun, and refer to an entity, quality, state, action, or concept.

Common Noun

Refers to a person, place, or thing but is not the name of a particular person, place, or thing. Examples are animal, sunlight, and happiness.

Plural Noun

Refers to more than one person or thing, or sometimes to something that has two main parts. These type of nouns have only one form and are used with plural verb forms: "Townspeople are invited to a forum on the project," "These scissors are dull.

Noun 2

A word that is the name of something (such as a person, animal, place, thing, quality, idea, or action) and is typically used in a sentence as subject or object of a verb or as object of a preposition

Count Noun

A noun that can be used after a or an or after a number (or another word that means "more than one"). These nouns have both singular and plural forms and can be used with both singular and plural verb forms, as with the word letter in "A letter for you is on the table. Letters for you arrive regularly." Sometimes the plural form of a this type of noun is the same as its singular form, as in "I saw a deer in my yard yesterday. There are a lot of deer in the woods near my house."

Attributive Noun

A noun that modifies another noun that immediately follows it, such as business in business meeting. These nouns look like adjectives but they're not.

Noun

A word or phrase that is the name of something (as a person, place, or thing) and that is used in a sentence especially as subject or object of a verb or as object of a preposition

Abstract Noun

Is an aspect, concept, idea, experience, state of being, trait, quality, feeling, or other entity that cannot be experienced with the five senses.

Proper Noun

Is the name of a particular person, place, or thing; it usually begins with a capital letter: Abraham Lincoln, Argentina, and World War I are all examples.

Collective Noun

Names a group of people or things, such as flock or squad. It's sometimes unclear whether the verb for a this noun should be singular or plural. In the United States, such nouns as company, team, herd, public, and class, as well as the names of companies, teams, etc., are treated as singular, but in the United Kingdom they are often treated as plural: (US) "The team has been doing well this season." vs. (British) "The team have been doing well this season."

Gerund

Nouns that are identical to the present participle (-ing form) of a verb, as in "I enjoy swimming more than running.

Singular Noun

Nouns which only ever refer to one thing. "Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun," "We heard a terrible din in the alley."

Concrete Noun

People, places, or things that we would experience with our five senses.