English Grammar Lesson 2: Nouns and Noun Categories
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INTRODUCTION The subject and object of a sentence can either be a noun or a pronoun. A noun is the name of a person, an object, a place, idea, a living thing other than human beings, or an action. John (a person) a cat (a living thing) a pen (an object) love (an idea) walking (an action) A noun can be a generic term that stands for a group of similar things or a unique name for a single thing. a boy (generic) Martin (name) a cat (generic) Tom (name) There are many different categories that grammar teachers assign to nouns; here, I would like to classify them into just two for your convenience. The second category is if the noun is COUNTABLE or UNCOUNTABLE . The first category is if the noun is COMMON or PROPER . COUNTABLE VS UNCOUNTABLE Countable nouns means the nouns that have a plural version; they are the nouns that we can count as separate entities. a cat (cats, three cats, ten cats) a river (rivers, five rivers) a boy (boys, two boys) UNCOUNTABLE VS UNCOUNTABLE Uncountable nouns m