English language
A community portal about English language with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: English is the most widely taught and understood language in the world, and sometimes is described as a lingua franca . It is a widely... [more]
A community portal about English language with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: English is the most widely taught and understood language in the world, and sometimes is described as a lingua franca . It is a widely distributed language originating in England that is currently the primary language of several countries. It is extensively used as a second language and as an official language in many other countries. Although Modern Standard Chinese has more mother-tongue speakers English is used by more people as a second or foreign language, putting the total number of English-speakers worldwide at well over one billion.
Types of English Nouns
An English noun is a part of speech used to name a person, animal, place, thing, or abstract concepts.
A noun can function in a sentence as a subject, a direct object, an indirect object, a subject complement, an object complement, an appositive, an adjective or an adverb.
Proper nouns are capitalised and include: name of a specific person, place, or thing, days of the week, months of the year, historical documents, institutions, organisations, religions, holy texts and religious followers.
A common noun refers in general to a person, place, or thing.
A concrete noun names everything that you can perceive through the physical senses of touch, sight, taste, hearing, or smell.
An abstract noun names anything that you can not perceive through your five physical senses. Abstract nouns name or refer to non-concrete entities, ideas or concepts. Abstract nouns: love, optimism, truth, freedom, belief and hope.
A countable noun or count noun names anything or anyone that you can count and is a noun with both a singular and a plural form.
A non-countable noun or mass noun refers to something that you could or would not usually count. A non-count noun refers to an indivisible whole. They only have singular forms.
A collective noun names a group of things, animals or persons. It takes a singular verb when you want to refer to a collective noun as one whole unit and it takes a plural verb when you want to refer to the members which make up the collective.
A possessive noun indicates ownership or possession.
Come back often for additional English grammar tips.
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