Give the notion about parts of speech

What is the noun as a part of speech?

How many categories of nouns are there?

• 1) Common nouns
• Common nouns are words that refer to undefined or generic people, places, or things. For example, the country is a common noun that refers to a generic place while the word Canada is not a common noun because it refers to a specific place. Common nouns are only capitalized when they begin sentences or are used in the names or titles Proper nouns help distinguish a specific person, place, or thing. These words should be capitalized. The names and titles of things are always proper nouns, such as the brand name Starbucks and the personal name Jenny

What are the morphological and syntactical characteristics of the noun?

• Parts of Speech Serie – Noun
• Words are referred to as parts of speech. There are nine parts of speech. They are:
• Noun: A word, or group of words, that names a person, place, or thing (object, activity, idea, or emotion) and can be used as the subject or object of a verb.
• Examples: father, London, statue, happiness, justice, electricity
• Pronoun: A word used to substitute for a noun or noun phrase
• Examples: I, me, he, she, it, they, them, we
• Verb: A word, or group of words, used to describe an action, an experience, or a state of being

• Nouns are used to name people, animals, places, objects, emotions, and abstract ideas. They are the words that babies typically learn first, pointing at objects or people and repeating what they have absorbed.
• In English, most nouns can be used to refer to either gender. For example, an accountant, a chef, a teacher, and an engineer can be male or female. While many other languages (French, Arabic, etc.) assign gender to inanimate objects, English does not. This simplifies learning as students need not memorize this additional information. Some words in English are gender-specific, however, such as waitress, steward, and policeman.
• Most nouns are pluralized by adding “-s” or “-es” to the end (tables, chairs, brushes). Nouns that change structure in the plural form are known as irregular (children, mice, men).
• In this section, we will be discussing countable vs. uncountable nouns, quantifier nouns, collective nouns, compound nouns, and various types of pronouns.

• Proper nouns help distinguish a specific person, place, or thing. These words should be capitalized. The names and titles of things are always proper nouns, such as the brand name Starbucks and the personal name Jenny.
• proper nouns:
• Spain, Fido, Sony

• 3) Singular nouns
• Singular nouns are nouns that refer to only one person, place or thing. For example, a cat is one animal and a banana is one fruit.
• singular nouns:
• house, cat, girl, foot, country
• 4) Plural nouns
• A plural noun refers to more than one of something. Many singular nouns just need an S added at the end to make them plural (e.g., bee becomes bees). For some nouns that already end with an S, you may need to add -es to the end to make their plural forms (e.g., classes and buses). Some

• 5) Concrete nouns
• A concrete noun is something that can be perceived through the five senses. If you can see, hear, touch, taste, or smell something, it uses a concrete noun.
• concrete nouns:
• table, apple, rabbit, ear
• 6) Abstract nouns
• Abstract nouns are intangible ideas that can’t be perceived with the five senses, such as social concepts, political theories, and character traits. For example, the abstract noun anger refers to an emotion and the abstract noun courage refers to a quality a person has.
• abstract nouns:
• love, creativity, democracy