tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26441940.post-37630988023116071662007-01-31T22:03:00.000-08:002007-01-31T22:08:13.496-08:00The Noun<div align="justify">We have already defined the noun but for the purpose of revision let us repeat it: Words used as a name of anything are called nouns.<br /><br /><strong>Classes of Nouns<br /></strong><br />There are five classes of nouns:<br /><br /><strong>Proper Noun:</strong> The name of a particular person, place or thing is called Proper Noun.<br /></div><div align="justify">e.g. John, Krishna, Akbar, London, Delhi, Banana etc.<br /><br /><em>In this definition thing includes the days of months as Sunday, the branches of knowledge as Physics, Name of oceans, rivers, mountains etc. as the Pacific, Ganges, Alps Languages as English, diseases as Diarrhoea etc. etc.<br /></em><br /><strong>Common Noun:</strong> The name which can be given to each individual in the same class or things is called Common Noun.<br /><br />e.g. man, country, river etc.<br /><br /><strong>Collective Noun:</strong> The name of a number or collection of persons or things of the same class considered as a whole and spoken as one object is called Collective Noun.<br /><br />e.g. army, party, bunch etc.<br /><br /><strong>Material Noun:</strong> A material or substance considered as a single collection is called Material Noun.<br /><br />e.g. silver, rice, water, mist etc.<br /><br /><strong>Abstract Noun:</strong> The name of quality, action or state of an object considered apart from the object itself is called Abstract Noun.<br /><br />e.g. honesty, wisdom, softness etc.<br /><br /><strong>Number of Noun:<br /></strong><br />Nouns are divided into two kinds of numbers viz. Singular Number and Plural Number.<br /><br /><strong>Singular Number:</strong> Only one person, place or thing is denoted by Singular Number.<br /></div><div align="justify">e.g. man, country, car etc.<br /><br /><strong>Plural Number:</strong> More than one persons, places or things are denoted by Plural Number.<br /></div><div align="justify">e.g. men, countries, cars etc.<br /><br /><strong>Gender of Noun:<br /></strong><br /><strong>Masculine Gender:</strong> Masculine Gender is applied to the names of male animals as man, dog etc.<br /><br /><strong>Feminine Gender:</strong> Feminine Gender is applied to the names of female animals as woman, bitch etc.<br /><br /><strong>Neuter Gender:</strong> Neuter Gender is applied to the names of lifeless objects as pen, ring etc.<br /><br /> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26441940-3763098802311607166?l=engra.blogspot.com'/></div>जी.के. अवधियाnoreply@blogger.com1