Types of nouns – L6 Language
The dictionary definition of a noun is: “a word used to identify any of a class of people, places or things, or to name a particular one of these”. Linguists analyse nouns further and divide them in several ways:
COMMON v PROPER NOUNS
Common nouns
These classify things into general types or categories
Eg:
Proper nouns
These refer to specific people and places and are usually written with an initial capital letter. They don’t normally appear after “a” or “the”
Eg:
CONCRETE v ABSTRACT NOUNS
Concrete nouns
These refer to physical things like people, objects and places – things that can be touched and measured.
Eg:
Abstract nouns
These refer to ideas, processes, occasions, times and qualities – they cannot be touched or seen
Eg:
The relationship between these categories can be visualised like this:—
| |Nouns | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | | |
|Proper | | |Common | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| | |Concrete | | |Abstract |
| | | | | | |
Exercise 1: Underline all the nouns in this short extract:
Something dead strange has happened to Christmas. It’s just not the same as it used to be when I was a kid. In fact I’ve never really got over the trauma of finding out that my parents have been lying to me annually about the existence of Santa Claus.
To me, then, at the age of eleven, Santa Claus was a bit like God, all-seeing, all-knowing, but without the lousy things that God allows to happen: earthquakes, famines, motorway crashes. I would lie in bed under the blankets (how crude the word blankets sounds nowadays when we are all conversant with the Tog rating of continental quilts, my heart pounding and palms sweaty in anticipation of the virgin Beano album.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ copyright © Sue Townsend (Penguin Books Ltd)
Exercise 2: What type of nouns are these?
Christmas
Kid
Trauma
Parents
Existence
Dream
Anticipation
Beano
Album
Blanket
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