Nouns And Pronouns

Definition of Noun

A noun is a name of an individual, human, animal, place or thing. For example:

• Rohan is a good boy.
• I visited Mumbai last week.
• Tiger is our national animal.
  

Types of Noun

There are seven different types of Noun. They are as follows:

• Proper Noun is the name of a specific person or place. For e.g:

1. I stay in Delhi.
2. Naina goes to school every day.

• Common Noun is the name given in common to the same category person, place or thing. For e.g:

1. India is a developing country.
2. Paul is a boy.

• Collective Noun is the name given collectively to a group of persons, places or things. For e.g:

1. A herd of cattle.
2. An army of ants.
3. All the collective nouns are used in their singular form. The plural form of any collective noun is a common noun. 

• Abstract Noun is a word that describes an action, activity, emotion, thought, state or any quality of a person, place or thing. In the real world, abstract nouns don’t have any existence, they are only used to relate a change with respect to the object. Example:

1. Sword is mightier than the pen.
2. The joke was so funny that no could control their laughter. 

• Material Noun is the name of those materials from which things are being made. Example:

1. Electric wires are made of copper.
2. My wife gifted me a gold. 

• Countable Noun is the names of those person, place or thing that can be counted. For e.g:

1. I bought five pens
2. The shopkeeper gave me three e.ggs.

• Uncountable Noun is the names of those person, place or thing that cannot be counted. They can only be measured or weighed. Example:

1. In today’s world, only money can buy happiness.
2. There is no information regarding our exams.

Noun: On the basis of Numbers

1. On the basis of numbers, a noun is divided into two parts:
2. Singular are those which counts only one person or thing. For e.g:
3. I have a pen.
4. The building is very high.
5. Plurals are those which counts more than one place or thing. Example:
6. The girls are studying.
7. I have completed my studies.

Noun: On the basis of Gender

On the basis of gender, a noun can be further divided into four parts:

• Masculine gender contains all the male noun. Example:

      boy, god, man, king,

• Feminine gender includes all the female noun. Example:

      girl, woman, goddess, queen,

• Common gender means either male or female. Example:

      parent, student, doctor, magician,

• Neuter gender signifies a neutral gender, i.e., neither male nor female. Example:

      chair, table, fan, book,

Definition of Pronoun

A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun. For e.g: he, she, I, we, they, this, etc.

Types of Pronoun

• Personal Pronoun is of three types 

• Possessive Pronoun is used to relate a person or thing to a person. For e.g:
• This is my
• This is our
• That is your pencil. Mine is new. 
• Reflexive Pronoun is used to mention back the subject within the same sentence. For e.g:

        He himself closed the door.

        We must take care of ourselves.

• Relative Pronoun is used for writing a relative clause in a sentence. Examples are: who, whose, that, which, whom,

        I saw the person who stole my bag.

• Interrogative Pronoun is used when someone asks a question. For e.g:

       Whose property is this?

        Who did this?

• Indefinite Pronoun is used to refer to people or things without specifying them. For e.g: somebody, someone, something, nobody, anybody, anything, nothing, no one, nobody, everybody, everything, few, neither, either, some, many,

• Demonstrative Pronoun is used to refer to a thing(s). For e.g: this, that, these, those,

Recap

Noun

1. A noun is a name of a person, place or thing.
2. A proper noun is the name of a specific person or place.
3. A common noun is a name given in common to person, place or thing which are of the same
4. A collective noun is used to describe a group of person, place or thing.
5. The material noun is the name of the material from which things are being made.
6. An abstract noun is a name used to describe an emotion, thought, action, activity, etc.
7. A countable noun is which can be counted. An uncountable noun is which cannot be counted, they can only be measured.

Pronoun

1. A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun.
2. Personal pronounce includes first person, second person, and third person.
3. The possessive pronoun is used to show one’s possession of a person or thing.
4. A reflexive pronoun is used to imply back to the subject within the same sentence.
5. The relative pronoun is used to mention or introduce a relative clause in a sentence.
6. An interrogative pronoun is used while asking questions.
7. An indefinite pronoun is used to refer to people or things without specifying them.
8. A demonstrative pronoun is purely used for referring to things.