English: English Grammar - Noun

Noun: A noun is word related to a person a place, an animal, or a thing.

Note: Things we see, we hear, we smell, we taste, and we think are nouns.

Ex:  Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Mumbai, London, elephant, lion, camera, book, sky, music, perfume, Apple, idea.

Common Noun: A name given in common to every person or thing of the same class or kind is called a common noun.

Ex: player, city, tiger, lecturer, ring

Proper Noun: A proper noun denotes a thing of particular.

Ex: Shakespeare, London, Everest, Ceylon, Mississippi

Collective Noun: It denotes collection of noun of things as one.

Ex: Army, team, Parliament, committee, flock, herd.

Material Noun: It denotes an uncountable thing or all those nouns, which are used to refer to metals and materials, are called material nouns.

Ex: Milk, rice, cheese, sugar, gold, silver, sand, powder, blood.

Abstract Noun: It denotes the quality, science, art.

Ex: honesty, courage, mathematics, history, painting, music.

Noun Gender: They are 4 genders in English.

1.     Masculine Gender: Nouns denoting a male being.

 Ex: Shakespeare, Galileo, father, son, headmaster, king, horse, lion.

2.     Feminine Gender:  Nouns denoting a female being.

 Ex: Sonia Gandhi, Mather Teresa, Priyanka, sister, daughter, lioness, mare.

3.     Common Gender: A noun that denotes either male or female being.

 Ex: teacher, friend, student, guest, doctor, leader.

4.     Neuter Gender: Nouns which denotes neither a male nor a female, non-living thing.

      Ex: table, tree, stone, book, ring, chair, mountain, silver, box, camera.

Noun Case: There are 4 cases in English. They are

1.     Subjective case

2.     Objective case

3.     Possessive case

4.     Vocative case

Subjective Case: Noun is subject of the verb or subject to the verb is called subjective case or nominative case.

Note:  The subjective of verb is known by putting the question ‘who’ to the verb.

Ex:

         1. People celebrate festival grandly in villages.

               Who celebrate festival grandly?

         2. The head master punished the boys.

               Who punished the boys?

         3. Rahane become the captain of the team India.

         

Objective Case: The noun in the position of object is in the objective case or accusative case.

Note: The objective of the verb in known by the putting the question ‘what’ to the verb.

Ex: 1. Mother made porridge.

           What made?

       2. My brother presented me a watch.

            What did he present?

       3. Birds build nests.

Possessive Case: The noun which denotes ownership is in the possessive case.

Note: The possession of a noun is known by putting the question ‘whose’ to the verb.

Ex: 

1.     Radha took Latha’s book.

2.     The students had the principal’s permission.

3.     Children should respect elder’s word.

Vocative Case: The noun which is used to address someone is in the vocative case.

Ex:

1.     Rahul please post this letter.

2.     We have some doubts in this lesion, Sir.