Noun

Noun is words that are used as the name of things, persons and places. There are two kinds of Noun in English language:

1. Common noun

2. Proper noun

Common Noun

Common noun refers to something general according to mostly people, e.g. king, country, girl, world, states, education, etc.

For example:

Napolion Bonaparte was a king at that time.

The girl is dancing with Mr.Tom in the hall.

Proper Noun

Proper noun refers to a particular thing, e.g. Linda, Indonesia, America, Jakarta, Bali, etc.

For example:

Indonesia is a modern country.

He went to Bali yesterday.

Linda has finished doing her homework.

Based on its appearance, Common noun has two types:

1. Collective Noun

2. Abstract Noun

Collective Noun

Collective Noun is the name of the number (or a collection) of person or things taken together and spoken of as one whole. It becomes singular noun when it uses article /a/ or /one/. Words, which is commonly used to indicate the collective noun, are: crowd, mob, team, flock, arm, fleet, jury, family, nation, parliament, committee.

For example:

A crowd of passengers gathers in the hall.

Abstract Noun

Abstract Noun is usually the name of a quality, degree, action or state which is considered apart from the object to which it belongs, as;

Quality> goodness, darkness, honesty, etc.

Action> laughter, movement, judgement, etc.

State> Childhood, youth, sleep, death, etc.

For example:

I hate the darkness.

Death is something which we can not escape from it.