8 Types of Noun, Definition and Example Sentences

Proper Nouns: This type of noun is just one thing; are nouns denoting people, places, and things, and such names are usually capitalized.

Like England (place name), James (person name), White House (item name).

Common Nouns: Nouns that can indicate more than one person, place, and thing on their own are called common nouns. It is the opposite of a proper noun.

Such as city (there is more than one city), flag (there is more than one flag), girl (there is more than one girl). Such names do not specifically describe one thing and do not have the identity of a single thing.

Abstract Nouns: Although we know what some names are, they are names that cannot be felt with the five senses.

Words such as courage, honor, sadness, conscience, freedom, independence.

Concrete Nouns: The words in this type are nouns that can be felt using the five senses.

Words such as sofa, table, telephone, glass, jacket, shoes, coffee, apple, headphones, money are examples.

Countable Nouns: Nouns that can be counted more than one are named in this way. Grammatically, “a, an, the” articles come just before these names.

Words such as ball, orange, hat, pen, glass, a table can be given. They can be counted as 1 ball, 2 balls. When used alone, they can be used as “a ball” or “the ball”.

Non-countable Nouns: Names that cannot be counted as one or more are called non-countable. Abstract nouns and special nouns can be said to be non-countable. Concrete nouns can sometimes be counted and sometimes not counted.