A noun is the name of a person, place or thing. EX.— Tree, boy, war, North, South, East, West, Europe, apple, herd, Jessica, sweetness, paper, etc.
A Pronoun is a word used in the place of a noun. EX.—He, she, him, her, it, who, whom, they, theirs, etc.
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English grammar divides all nouns into two great classes: Proper nouns and
Common nouns.
A
Proper noun is a name that belongs to some particular person, place or thing:
EX.— Lincoln, New York, August, Monday, etc.
Sometimes a proper noun contains several words. When it does, we regard it as a single noun.
EX.— James Lane Allen; Tales of
the Crypt; The Straits of Mackinac. We use a
common noun as the name of a class.
EX.— girl, holiday, town, month, sheep, corn, tree, etc.
Nouns Indicating Number
All nouns, with the exception of abstract nouns, may be either
singular or
plural.
A
singular noun refers to one; a
plural noun refers to more than one.
A word that refers to one is called a
Singular Number; more than one is
called a
Plural Number.
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