Practical English Vocabulary: A Complete Classification of English Nouns

Abstract nouns refer to concepts, opinions, emotions, etc. The following is a list of some common abstract nouns:

Success. Success.

Depression depression

Aiai

Hate disgust

Anger is anger.

Strength intensity

important

Tolerance tolerance

2. Collective nouns

Collective noun refers to a group of different things. Collective noun is most often used to represent a group of animals.

Herd

farrowing

Pack a group

swarm

An active crowd

Collective nouns can also be used to refer to the names of systems and groups under systems, such as colleges, enterprises and government organizations.

Department department

company

political party

staff

Team team

3. Common nouns

Common nouns refer to the types of common things, not the names of specific things.

Note: When a common noun is used to refer to a person's name, it becomes a proper noun and should be capitalized. Here are some common nouns commonly used in the names of things.

University. University

College college

School. School.

Association of societies

Department department

State state

4. Specific nouns

concrete noun

The era of concrete nouns is something you can touch, taste, feel, see and so on.

Countable concrete nouns are countable concrete nouns.

Orange orange

Desk desk

Book Book

Cars. Cars.

House house

Uncountable concrete nouns are uncountable concrete nouns.

Rice. Rice

Water

spaghetti

Whiskey. Whiskey.

As opposed to concrete nouns, abstract nouns refer to our thoughts, opinions and feelings, not things that can be touched.

5. Pronouns

Pronouns are words that refer to people or things. The number of pronouns depends on how they are used. The following are nominative pronouns:

I am

What about you?

He ta

Ta ta

That's it

We, we ...

You guys.

They ...

6. Proper nouns Proper nouns

Proper nouns refer to the names of people, things, institutions and countries. Proper nouns are often capitalized. Here are some common proper nouns:

Canada Canada

University of California University of California

Tom. Tom (male name)

Alice. Alice

7. uncountable nouns/material nouns/uncountable nouns/material nouns/uncountable nouns

Uncountable nouns can be both concrete nouns and abstract nouns. They often appear in the singular because they are uncountable. Generally speaking, uncountable nouns do not need to be preceded by definite articles or indefinite articles.

Rice. Rice

Aiai

Time, time

Weather weather

Furniture furniture

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