NOUN
A noun is the name of a person (e.g., Jahangir, Zim), place (e.g., Bangladesh, Australia), or thing (e.g., gold, a car).
Types of Nouns [5 Types of noun]:
- Proper Noun
- Common Noun
- Collective Noun
- Material Noun
- Abstract Noun
1. Proper Noun
A noun that specifically indicates a person, place, or thing. Most of the time proper noun is capitalized in a sentence. Generally ‘the’ is not used before a proper noun(Exceptions: The Padma, The Atlantic, The Taj Mahal, The Statue of Liberty)
2. Common Noun
Common Noun does not refer to an individual person, place, or thing; rather it describes the generic names of a person, a class of persons, place or thing.
(e.g. Table, Chair,Soldier(not Army), Mother, Lion, Dog, Cat)
3. Collective Noun
Collective Noun refers to a group of individual people or objects. So, a collection or a group of common nouns can be addressed as collective nouns. (Example: audience, crowd, group, family, herd, clergy, jury, parliament)
4. Material Noun
Material noun is a word that is used to describe a material that can be used to produce other products.Such as,Diamond, Iron, Cold. Water, Oil, Rice,Salt, Brick, Mutton, Beef, etc.
***Another word of Material Noun is Mass noun
5. Abstract Noun
যে সকল noun দ্বারা দোষ, গুণ, অবস্থা ও কাজের নাম বোঝায়, তাদেরকে Abstract noun.
Popular suffixes at the end of Abstract Noun: ce,cy, th,ty,ness, ment, hood, tion, sion, ship,dom, ry etc.
