Classification of nouns

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Every day we use words to communicate but rarely do we stop to think within what type each of them is. When it comes to performing a syntactic and morphological analysis of the language is when this need comes into play, So so that you can have more clear all the concepts in this lesson from a TEACHER, we are going to talk to you about the classification of nouns.

Index

1. What are nouns
2. How nouns are classified
3. Common nouns
4. Nouns
5. Individual nouns
6. Collective nouns
7. Concrete nouns
8. Abstract nouns
9. Countable nouns
10. Uncountable nouns

In the first place and before venturing into its classification, it is convenient that we know what are nouns, what they are used for and some examples of them that can help us to easily identify them when we must perform a morphological and syntactic analysis.

Nouns are present in all sentences and are essential for this to make sense. These serve to identify a person, animal, thing, idea or place

• The man eat spaghetti.
• The home is closed.
• That woman she has fallen on the street.
• The cat she is brown.
• The planes they fly high.
• The casserole she is dirty.

As you can see, the words marked in bold designate objects, people, animals or things that we can name and that we know.

Now that we know what they are, we can move on to showing the classification of nouns. This is traditionally divided into different categories. In addition, we must point out that together with the categories that we will go on to name below, the nouns also have other peculiarities such as gender and number.

The gender, for its part, is in charge of showing us if the noun is feminine or masculine and the number It will be the one that shows us if it is singular or plural. This will be very useful in matching these nouns properly with the corresponding verb. Let's see an example:

The house is on fire.

In this sentence we see that house is a singular feminine noun, so the verb estar also appears in that form. It would not be correct in any case to say: The house is on fire.

In addition to their gender, we are going to refer below to the classification of nouns, in which we can find 8 categories:

• Common
• Own
• Concrete
• Abstract
• Individuals
• Collectives
• Accountants
• Countless

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Let's start the classification by talking about the common nouns. These are those common names that allow designate or name generically to people, animals or things belonging to the same species or class. These examples will help you better understand what we mean when we talk about common nouns:

• Dog.
• Tree.
• Table.
• Woman.
• Man.

Its function is also to identify or designate a person, animal, or place by making a differentiation from the rest of the group or class to which it belongs. These can designate people, such as proper names or places, identified with geographical or city names. In both cases these nouns are always capitalized. Let's see some examples:

• Mary.
• Antonio.
• Jimena.
• Albacete.
• Valladolid.
• Barcelona.
• Istanbul.

Within the classification of nouns we also have to talk about individual ones. These are used when you want to designate or name a person, animal or thing of individually. That is, the named is only one and this can be named separately. With these examples you will understand it better.

• (A / The) truck.
• (One / The) house.
• (A / The) t-shirt.
• (The / A) mattress.
• (A / The) phone.

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In this case, collective nouns are those who are in charge of appointing or appointing a set of elements that belong to the same species or class using a singular noun for this. That is, it designates groups with a word, without using the plural. Undoubtedly, these types of nouns are better understood with examples:

• Pack: when we refer to several dogs.
• Pinewood: place where there are several pines.
• Herd: several animals of the same species.

The concrete nouns or nouns sOn those who name or designate what can be perceived through the senses. These may be real or unreal, but they will always be materials. These examples will help you understand it better:

• Table.
• Elephant.
• Highway.
• Dragon.

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If the concrete nouns showed us a material name, the abstractthey serve to designate or name items that are not tangible but they can be perceived by the senses. Unlike the previous ones, these are not material and are related to feelings, ideas or emotions. Thus we find the following abstract nouns:

• Joy.
• Love.
• Melancholia.
• Euphoria.
• Evil.
• Afraid.

The countable nouns they are also part of the classification of nouns. They are that they can be counted, for this we must add a numeral determinant before them. They are easy to identify, for example:

Cup: one glass, two glasses, 550 glasses. The glass in the example can be counted.

The same goes for other words:

• Home.
• Car.
• Table.
• Shelving.
• Book.
• Orange.

The uncountable nouns are those who designate or name those things or elements that they cannot be divided into units and therefore cannot be counted. It is possible to measure them to quantify them, but they are not units in themselves. We can see it very clearly with these examples:

Water: water is an uncountable noun since it cannot be divided into units. In other words, we cannot name a water, two waters, three waters... however we can mediate it, for example, a glass of water, a liter of water, two buckets of water ...

The same goes for other nouns like:

• Light.
• Darkness.
• Milk.
• Restlessness.
• Flour.
• Sugar.

Nouns appear in most of the sentences that we use both in written and oral form, for this This is why it is important to know its definition and some examples to correctly understand the classification of nouns.

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