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Introduction
Nouns are naming words. Every language has its own set of nouns and the list is open ended i.e. newer nouns one added to the older ones with the changing times.

Definition of Nouns
A Nouns is the name of a person place or thing. A thing includes a quality (fear) a material (gold), a collection (herd, army), a state (adherence) and an action (cheat, mock, movement)

Kinds of Nouns
Nouns can be classified into five kinds: 1. Proper nouns 2. Common nouns 3. Collective nouns 4. Material nouns 5. Abstract nouns

1 Proper nouns
A proper noun is the name of a particular person or thing, i.e. a name used for an individual person or place, river, or mountain etc.: Mary, Rahul, Godavari, India, Everest

2 Common nouns
A common noun refers to any and every person or thing of the same kind or class, not to a particular person or thing: cow, dog, girl, boy, man, woman Common nouns Proper nouns girl Latha dog Rover man Aslam

3 Collective nouns
A collective noun is the name of a collection, group of people, or things of the same kind: class, team, government jury, federation

4 Material nouns
A material noun is the name of a material, substance, or ingredient things are made of. They can be articles of food or drink as well: iron, copper, steel, gold, coal, silver, rice, wheat, milk, water, tea, sugar Note: A material noun is a type of common noun but a distinction is made between the two. A common noun is usually a countable noun but a material noun is an uncountable noun. The cow gives us milk. Cow is a common noun (countable), but milk is a material noun (uncountable).

5 Abstract nouns
An abstract noun is the name of a quality, state, or concept: beauty, sweetness, childhood, love Note: Concrete nouns are names of material things, i.e. things having a material form, shape or size. Abstract nouns are the names of qualities found in various kinds of objects. Since they have no material form, they cannot be seen or touched. We can know of them only through our mind: Concrete nouns Abstract nouns sugar weetness book beauty milk hatred Patna fear We can see sugar but cannot see sweetness, so sugar is a concrete noun and sweetness an abstract noun. In short, concrete nouns refer to physical properties and abstract nouns to mental roperties.