Nouns

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Nouns
* Concrete nouns: You can experience this group of nouns with your five senses: you see them, hear them, smell them, taste them, and feel them.
Example: Ice cream, for example, is aconcrete noun. You can see the pink. You can taste the berry flavor. You can feel your tongue growing numb from the cold.
Any noun that you can experience with at least one of your five senses is aconcrete noun.

* Abstract noun: Your five senses cannot detect this group of nouns. You cannot see them, hear them, smell them, taste them, or feel them.
Example: Bravery, one of the nouns in thissentence, is an example of an abstract noun. You can see Joseph, the water, and the crowd. But you cannot see bravery itself. Bravery has no color, size, shape, sound, odor, flavor, or texture; it hasno quality that you can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch.
Any noun that escapes your five senses is an abstract noun.
* Collective: are used to denominate a group of people, animals or things.Example:
army
audience
board
cabinet
class
committee
company
Countable: A noun can be countable or uncountable. Countable nouns can be "counted", they have a singular and plural form .For example:
* A book, two books, three books .....
* An apple, two apples, three apples ....
* Uncountable nouns (also called mass nouns or noncount nouns) cannot be counted, they arenot seperate objects. This means you cannot make them plural by adding -s, because they only have a singular form. It also means that they do not take a/an or a number in front of them.
For example:* Water
* Work
* Information
* Coffee
* Sand
* Possessive nouns:
* Possessive nouns are used to show possession (owning, or having). They are words that would normally benouns, but are used as adjectives to modify a noun or pronoun. Possessive nouns tell you who or what the modified noun or pronoun belongs to.
* Example: The dog's collar is too large.
* The...
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