Can You Tell What Kind of Nouns These Are?

Love is a pretty "abstract" concept, don't you think? It's also an abstract noun, which means you can't interact with it using your senses. These types of nouns also refer to emotions and feelings.

Proper nouns refer to specific people, places or events, some of which are important in our society. The Museum of Modern Art is an example of a proper noun, as is the Sahara Desert.

A concrete noun refers to something you can physically touch with you hands or perceive with your senses. You can touch a hairbrush and see it with your eyes, so that makes it a concrete noun.

If we were talking about a specific country, like Russia or Armenia, then this would be a proper noun. But since a country refers to a more general concept, it would be a common noun.

Do you how there's no space in between the two words that make up the word "meatball"? A compound noun combines two words to form a single word.

A collective noun refers to a word that signifies a group of things. So in this context, a choir is made up of a group of people, which collectively makes it one whole choir group.

"Board of members" is a pretty vague compound noun here. It's not referring to a specific group of "board of members," so it could be anyone. Thus, that's what makes it a common noun and not a proper one.

See that little dash symbol in between the words "paper" and "clip"? That's a hyphen, and it's used to connect two or more words together. Other examples of hyphenated compound nouns are forget-me-not and father-in-law.

The word "town" is a common noun, not a pronoun. A pronoun usually refers to someone or something in a sentence, without using its proper noun form. For instance, "James likes ice cream, so he went to buy some." "He" is the pronoun here, and it refers to the proper noun, James.

The word "knowledge" is considered to be a non-countable noun. You can't really count knowledge. It can't be measured literally, like having two oranges or three cats.

The word "actress" is a gender-specific noun because it refers to the female version of "actor." In other words, a woman in the acting industry is called an actress, while a male in the same industry is an actor.

Verbal nouns are formed using verbs. Take "decision," for example. It comes from the verb "to decide," but we could use it in this sentence: "The candidate has not yet made his decision." The word "metal" in this question is a common noun.

You can't physically touch or see "parenthood," which makes it an abstract concept (and thus, an abstract noun). Other examples would be the words "bravery," "courage" and "joy."

Gerunds are formed from verbs like start, stop or change. When you add an "-ing" at the end, then it becomes a gerund. For example, "Swimming in the lake today is a great idea" has the gerund "swimming."

The word "ice cream" is an open compound noun because of that space between "ice" and "cream." We're combining two words — ice and cream — to make one unit.

This cat belongs to Timmy, which makes this noun possessive. A possessive noun shows that someone owns something. For example, "Mary's jacket is red" or "Beth's water bottle is small."

The word "pencil" is a countable noun because you can literally count how many you have, such as one or two pencils. Other examples of countable nouns include "cup," "phone" and "pen."

All the words in this list are plural nouns, except for cactus. Its plural form is actually cacti, though some people also say cactuses. And believe it or not, "oxen" is the plural form of "ox!"

All of these words are considered to be uncountable nouns because you can't count them physically. But if you have lots of time on your hands, then maybe you could count some rice.

Walt Disney was known for many classics, such as "Dumbo" and "Fantasia," but he's also a proper noun. This is because proper nouns signify specific people, places and things — and we don't mean just important ones like Walt Disney!

The word "moose" is one of those rare exceptions in the English language where it doesn't have a set plural form. Some people use the word "meese," but that's more of a slang word.

There are three nouns in this sentence, which are "lady," "necklace" and "heart." They are all common nouns because they don't refer to specific people or things.

Crisis is not a compound noun because it's not a combination of two or more words. "Anymore," for instance, contains the words "any" and "more," and "nobody" is a combination of "no" and "body."

There are actually no concrete nouns in this sentence. A concrete noun is a word that involves one or more of your five senses. Since you can't literally perceive the nouns in this sentence, none of them are concrete.

We may have documents and textbooks about history, but we can't perceive the actual word using sight, hearing or touch. It's an abstract concept, which means that it's an abstract noun.

This type of pronoun is used to demonstrate something in a sentence. For example, "This shirt is blue," or "These oranges are organic." You could also say "Are those necklaces yours?"

"Several" is an indefinite pronoun because it doesn't involve specific people, places or things. It's also plural because singular pronouns end in "thing," "one" or "body," such as "anything" or "everybody."

If a specific person was named "Faith," then this would be a proper noun. But in this context, we're talking about "faith" as an idea. It's also not really a "thing," since you can't physically touch it.

The word "store" is the noun in this sentence because it's referring to a place (specifically, it's a common noun). "Yet" is an adverb, "you" is a pronoun, "go" is a verb and "hey" is an interjection.

Generally, people use the word "blonde" to describe yellow hair on either a man or a woman. But "blonde" actually refers to a woman with this type of hair, while "blond" denotes a male.

The word "axis" is a singular noun that describes imaginary lines in astronomy or fixed lines in mathematics (among several other definitions, depending on the educational context). Its proper plural form would be "axes."

You've probably heard the term, "It takes a village ..." The word "village" in this context is a collective noun because it refers to a group or a collection of something. In this case, it would be a group of people. Other collective nouns include "family" and "band."

Two verbs don't make a specific type of noun, but if you combine a certain verb with a noun, then it becomes a compound noun. Examples of this include haircut and sunrise.

Verbal nouns and gerunds are pretty similar, but there's a key difference, and that has to do with the word's verbal properties. Verbal nouns have none while gerunds have some,. The word "paying" is derived from a verb.

The word "luggage" is actually considered to be an uncountable noun. Here's a trick: If a word has no plural version of it, then it's considered to be uncountable. For example, you can't say "luggages" when referring to multiple pieces of luggage.