Noun & Types of Noun

Noun:

        The part of speech that is used to the name anything i.e. places, persons, animals, things or events.

Types of Noun:

        There are four types of Noun.

1.    Common Noun

2.    Proper Noun

3.    Abstract Noun

4.    Collective Noun

Common Noun: 

        Common noun is a name of thing place or persons generally or commonly i.e. people, cities, boxes, etc.
Examples:

                                    i.          Stack those boxes carefully.

                                 ii.          My dog won’t stop barking.

                               iii.          Happiness was on their face.

Proper Noun:

         Proper noun a name of specific person, specific place and specific thing.

         In the common noun we give the name things generally but in proper noun we name the things very specific.

For example

He is a boy and his name is Martin.

         In the above sentence “Boy” is common noun as boy can be any one you can not specify someone by saying or listening the word boy while the “Martin” is Proper noun because by saying Martin you can call a specific person.

        Proper noun is always starts with capital letter either it is in the start or in between of a sentence.

Examples:

         Boy is a common noun while David is proper noun.

         Country is a common noun while Pakistan is Proper noun.