A glance at the world of Nouns!

What is your name?

Where are you from?

What is your favourite fruit?

The answers to all these questions will be Nouns. How can you tell? It’s simple, really! Nouns are words to 

name animals, places or things.

There are a few things we must keep in mind while learning nouns, though. You shouldn’t get confused while trying to trying to tell the difference between the genders of the noun. Take a look at this sentence, for instance.

“My English teacher in the tenth grade was my favourite!”

In this sentence, the noun is ‘teacher’ (you guessed that right!) However, the word ‘teacher’ could be 

referring to a male or a female teacher. It is still a noun, nonetheless.

The same is the case in this sentence: “Who is the artist who painted this beautiful picture?” The noun, that is, artist could again either be male or female. We’re just making sure you don’t get confused about it in the future!

Nouns can be broadly categorized into: Common Nouns and Proper Nouns. Let’s take a look at them closely.

Proper nouns are the specific names of a place or a person or a thing.

Look at this sentence: “Romeo took Juliet for a vacation to Rome in January.”

What are the proper nouns in this sentence? Romeo, Juliet, Rome and January. Remember to always keep in mind- specific names of places, people or things.

Now we’ll look at common nouns. These are words naming places, people or things in the general sense. So for instance if we said: “There are many trees in our school’s garden.” We’re sure you can tell what the common nouns in this sentence are!

Now as a fun exercise why don’t you re-read this blog post and try to list all the nouns- proper and common!

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