Noun and Kinds of Noun

                                         NOUN
Noun is the name of a person, place and thing.
e.g. Ali, Jack, Pakistan, wall etc.
                          KINDS OF NOUN
1. Common noun:
                common noun is a noun which is not particular.
e.g  Professor(any professor, not particular one), Zaheer(any Zaheer)

2. Proper noun:
               Proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.
e.g. Pakistan, Allama Iqbal, Shahid Afridi etc.

3. Collective noun:
               Collective noun is singular in shape, but plural in meaning.
e.g. Team, group, family, flock, swam, herd, cattle etc.

4. Material/ Concrete Noun:
                 Material or Concrete noun is a noun that can be touched physically(tangible).
e.g. Stone, chair, cell phone etc.

5. Abstract Noun:
               It is a noun that can not be touched physically. It is intangible noun, you can neither see nor touch it.
e.g. love, sadness, goodwill. respect, fame etc.  

6. Compound Noun:
              these kind of names are made up of more than one word.
e.g. Wall paper, laser printer, truck driver etc.

7. Countable noun:
            these nouns are used for the things which are countable and divisible.
e.g. man, planet, continent etc.

8. Un-countable noun:
           It is used for those things which are not countable and divisible.
e.g. water, milk, sand, sugar etc.

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