Types of Nouns

Common and Proper NounsProper nouns are the names of people, places, things or ideas. They are always capitalized.

Common nouns are the general names for persons, places, things or ideas.

Common=girl Proper=Jennifer

Common and Proper Common Proper

Person friend Melanie

Place country Australia

Thing television Sony

Idea happiness

Nouns can be

Concrete

Abstract

Concrete Nouns

Can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted or touched

Like: rainbows, dogs, cats, houses, leaves, Thunder, etc.

Abstract Nouns Are feelings,

happiness ideas,

freedom qualities or characteristics.

beauty, humor or greed

All nouns fit into each of the categories For example:

supermarket is common and concrete

Safeway is concrete and proper

Collective Nouns Are words that name groups

Like…Flock CLASS audience CouncilPridePodClergyFaculty class

StaffFamily duo trio quartet crowd

Collective nouns… Act like singular nouns.

For example, you would write: The tribe is small. The faculty is large.

In both sentences, you use a singular verb because the collective noun is technically singular even though it is talking about more than one person.