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The Lexico -Grammatical classification of Nouns
Nouns are words that denote things in the broadest sense of the
word:living beings,objects,abstruct notions ,places , processes , events ,etc.
understood as things: John , lion, beauty , street , etc.
Depending on their semantic and grammatical properties nouns fall into
Common and Proper ones
Common nouns are of two kinds:
concrete / John
, car , table/ and abstract / beauty , love , friendship/
Concrete nouns are divided into
counts , non-counts , and collectives.
Count nouns /counts/ are otherwise called class nouns . Their referents
can be counted / man , car , house/.Tthose of non-count nouns can’t
/mud
, gold , snow/
Collective nouns are divided into those
- Which are used only in the singular/ furniture , foliage , machinery
,
etc/
- Which are used only in plural / trousers , clothes , stairs
, etc./
- Which are used in both numbers /family , company , crowd , etc/
Abstract nouns like concrete ones are divided into
counts / idea ,
answer , question , etc./ , non counts
/ knowledge , love , friendship ,
etc./ and used only in plural / tidings ,
earnings/
Proper nouns are divided into
- personal names /
Bill, Anny/ ,
- geographical names/The Pacific Ocean , The Neva
/
- and
other proper names / The Titanic , Piccadilly , The Tower /
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