Kinds Of Noun And Pronoun | Types of Nouns & Types of Pronoun with Examples

KINDS OF NOUN AND PRONOUN | Types of Nouns & Types of pronoun with Examples 

Kinds of noun

1. A Common Noun is a name of common a class of persons, places or things. e.g. Town, man, pen, building etc.

2. A Proper Noun is a particular name of a person, place or thing. Remember it starts with capital letter. e.g. The Taj Mahal, Rohit Sharma, King, Friday etc.

3. A Material Noun is a name of  substance which are used to make different things. It can't be counted e.g. stone, silk, wood, gold etc.

4. A Collective Noun is a name of collection of persons or things  put together as a group. e.g. army, crowd, flock, gang etc.

5. An Abstract Noun is denotes the of quality, state, action etc. e.g. honesty, beauty, bravery, poverty, job, hatred etc.

GENDER

Gender refers the difference in sex in grammar.

Noun have four genders.

Masculine Gender : All male sex belong to this gender.  Like,  boy, actor, dog, brother etc.

Feminine Gender : All female sex belong to this gender.  Like,  girl, actress, bitch, sister etc.

Common Gender : It belongs either a male or a female sex.  Like,  student, bird, animal, cousin, patient, doctor, lecturer etc

Neuter Gender : All things without life are comes under this category. Like,  pen, shop, college, bed, axe, ocean etc.

Masculine             Feminine

Boy                   Girl

Prince              Princess

Man                 Woman

Cock                 Hen

Bullock            Heifer

Buck                 Doe 

Son                   Daughter

Bridegroom    Bride

Nephew          Niece

Uncle               Aunt

Horse               Mare

Master             Miss

NUMBER

In English there are two numbers; the singular and the plural.

When there is only one person or thing is known as singular. as, book, lion... 

But if there more than one person or thing so that is plural. as, books, lions...

Nouns to add 's' in the end.

Book                   books

Tree                   trees

House               houses

Road                 roads

Dog                   dogs

Plane                planes

Wood                woods

Bag                    bags

Car                    cars

Noun which has last letter (h,s,x,z,o) + es for plural.

Singular         Plural

Dish                Dishes

Rich                riches

Gas                 gases 

Glass              glasses

Mass              masses

Tax                 taxes

Bush              bushes

Box                boxes

Fox                foxes

Razz              razzes 

Whiz            whizes 

Hero             heroes

Mango         mongoes

Buffalo        buffaloes

Noun ends with 'y' (cut 'y' letter) + ies for plural.

Singular        Plural

Army             Armies

Baby              babies

Country        countries

Beauty           beauties

City                cities

Copy              copies

Lady              ladies

Study             studies

KINDS OF NOUN AND PRONOUN | Types of Nouns & Types of pronoun with Examples 

KINDS OF PRONOUN 

1.  Personal Pronouns 

1st person    2nd person    3rd person

I    / We       --      you    --     he/she/it/they

Me   / Us    --       you     --     him/her/it/them

My   / Our   --    your    --      his/her/hers

Mine  / Ours --  yours    --     its/their/theirs

• We are going there. He meet us.
• Raj is a honest guy.
• It is her bag.

2.  Relative Pronouns

Who/ whom/ whose/ which/ that. These Pronouns are used to joining words, are called Relative Pronouns.

• The boy who is driving is my relative.
• This car which is parking here is mine.
• The bat that I brought before yesterday is broken.

3.  Reflexive Pronouns

These are formed by adding -self or -selves.

• We enjoyed ourselves well.
• She hurt herself while playing badminton.
• The lion saw itself in the pond.

4.  Interrogative Pronouns

The Pronouns who/ which/ whom/ what, are used to ask questions.

• Who is coming?
• Whose home is that?
• What is your name?

5.  Demonstrative Pronouns

(This/ That) these are used for singular objects and (Those/These) are used for plural.

• This is my friend Raj.
• Those are him pets.
• These are good students.

6.  Indefinite Pronouns

These are those Pronouns which do not refer to any particular person or thing, these denote quantity.

Somebody, one, nothing, all, anybody, both, most, little, few, enough, none, etc.

• Somebody shut the door.
• All the members are present in the meeting.
• Few students were absent.
• One should do one's duty.

7.  Distributive Pronouns

Each / either/ neither/everyone/everybody, are Pronouns refer to persons or things taken one at a time.

• Either of the boys can come.
• Neither of these cars are mine.
• Each of the guests was welcomed.

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