<p>Basic Grammar: Parts of Speech: Nouns modified from: http://www.athabascau.ca/courses/engl/egh/basic_grammar.php</p><p>Nouns A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. Most nouns may be singular (i.e., represent one person, place, thing, or idea) or plural (i.e., represent more than one person, place, thing, or idea). A plural noun usually ends with an s. There are also many irregular plural forms that must be learned and recognized.</p><p>Examples Singular Plural : </p><p>Person boy boys</p><p> woman women</p><p>Place Lake Erie Great Lakes</p><p>Vancouve </p><p> r </p><p>Thing house houses</p><p> tree trees</p><p> democrac Idea democracies y </p><p> freedom freedoms</p><p> love love</p><p>Types of Nouns A noun may belong to more than one of the following groups.</p><p>Proper  name a particular person, place, or thing  require a capital letter</p><p>Examples Person Place Thing : </p><p>Anne Hyde Park (the) Bible</p><p>Gandhi Mt. Everest Concorde</p><p>Mr. Lee Vancouver Ford Escort</p><p>Common  name a class of persons, places, or things  do not require a capital letter</p><p>Examples Person Place Thing : </p><p> child city chair</p><p> doctor home expression</p><p> singer restaurant snow</p><p>Collective  name of groups of persons, places, and things  may be singular or plural</p><p>Examples Person Place Thing :</p><p> club forest decade</p><p> jury mall dozen</p><p> team herd</p><p> flock</p><p>Abstract  name of things not knowable through the five senses (touch, hear, see, smell, taste)</p><p>Examples humor, fatigue, liberty, love, refusal, truth : </p><p>Concrete  name things that are knowable through the five senses (touch, hear, see, smell, and taste)</p><p>Examples Touch Hear See Smell Taste : </p><p> snow cry cloud fumes coffee</p><p> landscap tree sigh odor hot dog e </p><p> wind whisper moon perfume salt</p><p>Count  name people, places, and things that can be counted, as in one pen, two pens  have irregular forms where the plural is quite different from the singular form, or have the same form as the singular, e.g., sheep.</p><p>Examples Regular Countables Irregular Countables : </p><p> cat cats child children</p><p> house houses goose geese</p><p> husband husbands person people</p><p> socialist socialists woman women</p><p>Non-count or mass  name things that cannot be counted</p><p>Examples advice, information, news, rice, sugar, : water</p>