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COLLECTİVE NOUNS
- A noun which is refers to a group of nouns.
- Examples: a band of men, a cast of actors, a sentence of judges, a flight of birds, a cup of tea, a batch of cakes etc.
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IRREGULAR NOUNS
- Irregular nouns are nouns which don't follow a spelling pattern when pluralized.
- Examples:
- Child-Children
- mouse- mice
- woman-women etc.
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ABSTRACT NOUNS
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A noun which can not be identified using one of the five senses (taste,touch,hearing,smelling,sight)
- examples: anger, happiness, love, fear, friendship, anxiety, etc.
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COUNTABLE-UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
- Countable nouns are nouns which can be counted, even if the number might be extraordinarily high.
- Countable noun examples:
- cat/cats
- girl/girls
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uncountable noun examples
- milk,water
- childhood,stress,sleep
- snow, rain, weather etc.
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PROPER NOUNS
- Proper nouns are the names of specific people or places. They should always begin with a capital.
- Examples: George Orwell, Australia, Black Sea, Indian Ocean etc.
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COMPOUND NOUNS
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Compound nouns are words where two nouns have been stuck together to make a new noun.
- seafood
- toothbrush
- skydiving
- housekeeper
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Examples
- bathroom
- eyeball
- downstairs
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POSESSİVE NOUNS
- Possessive nouns are nouns which possess something, normally another noun
- Examples:
- Jam's pencil, bird's chicks
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COMMON NOUNS
- Common nouns are words for people,places or things that are not specific. Common nouns can be countable or uncountable, singular or plural.
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PEOPLE: sister,mother,father, uncle, child, baby, girl, man, teacher, student etc.
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- ANİMALS: cat, lion, dog, fish etc.
- THİNGS: table, pencil, computer etc.
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CONCRETE NOUNS
- A concrete noun is a noun which can be identified through one of the five senses.(taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight)
- examples:
- Apple, dog, mouse, brain, bow, clock, umbrella, guitar, water, snowman, sun etc.
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GENERİC NOUNS
- A generic noun represents a whole class of things.
- It is not a specific, real,concrete thing, but rather a symbol of a whole group.
- Examples: A bird has wings. A horse has four legs.