What Are the Types of Nouns? Here’s the List & the Examples of Each Type

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WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF NOUNS – Here is a list of the types of nouns and the examples under each type of noun.

Noun is one of the widest and most popular topics in learning English. It has several types. Below, may your quest on “what are the types of nouns?” be answered along with the examples under each type.

Types Of Nouns – What Are The Different Types Of Nouns?

Here are the different types of nouns and their examples.

TYPES OF NOUNS – These are the different types of nouns, their definition, and some examples to help you use them correctly.

A noun is an important part of speech in English. It is pretty much difficult to say something or a sentence without a noun in it. This part of speech has various types and this is how you can recognize them.

Types Of Nouns

TYPES:

  • COMMON
    This refers to a general name of a person, place, thing, event, etc., and starts with a small letter.

Examples:

  1. teacher
  2. hospital
  3. school
  4. mobile phone
  5. shopping mall
  6. doctor
  7. fruits
  8. chocolate
  9. clothes
  • PROPER
    This refers to a specific name of a person, place, thing, event, brand, etc. and it begins with a big letter.

Examples:

  1. Dr. Gerardo Castillo
  2. Mongol
  3. Bench
  4. St. Thomas College of Education
  5. Philippines
  6. Mauro V. Jimenez Medical Hospital
  7. Wilkins Distilled Water
  8. Samsung
  9. Toblerone
  10. SM Department Store
  • CONCRETE
    This refers to things that you can touch physically.

Examples:

  1. man
  2. rice
  3. head
  4. car
  5. furniture
  6. mobile phone
  • ABSTRACT
    This refers to things that you cannot touch like ideas, concepts, and thoughts.

Examples:

  1. strength
  2. mystery
  3. danger
  4. love
  5. sadness
  6. courage
  7. happiness
  • COUNTABLE
    These are the nouns that you can count which can be singular or plural in form.

Examples:

  1. ball; balls
  2. boy; boys
  3. year; years
  4. car; cars
  5. dog; dogs
  • UNCOUNTABLE
    This is also called the mass noun refers to the nouns that will need measure words. They are always singular in sentences.

Examples:

  1. money
  2. electricity
  3. hair
  4. sand
  5. stars
  • COLLECTIVE
    This refers to the nouns denoting a group of individuals.

Examples:

  1. a fleet of ships
  2. a series of events
  3. a glossary of words/phrases
  4. a team of players
  5. a tribe of natives
  6. a troop of scouts
  7. an anthology of poems/prose
  8. an armada of ships
  9. an atlas of maps
  10. a bank of circuits
  • COMPOUND
    This refers to nouns made of two or more words that may have open or space in between words, hyphenated, or closed in form.

Examples:

  1. bus stop
  2. mini stop
  3. cat food
  4. dog food
  5. mother-in-law
  6. brother-in-law
  7. check-out
  8. set-up
  9. football
  10. basketball
  11. sunset
  12. software
  • POSSESSIVE
    This refers to nouns that show ownership or a direct connection and any noun can become possessive.

Examples:

  1. Maria’s dog
  2. the Empire State Building’s door
  3. my mother’s recipe
  4. my dad’s work

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