NOUNS

Nouns are one of the building blocks of the sentence. They refer to people, places, and things (including ideas). The noun could be the subject of the sentence (such as "I"), or an abstract concept such as "Happiness".

The agent is the intentful performer of an action, and is not necessarily the subject. In a passive voice sentence, the agent is not even mentioned (eg, "The equipment will be removed from the facility.")

Although the verb form used with nouns changes according to the number, sometimes it is possible to make an exception (by saying, for example, "The Rolling Stones is a popular band"). This is called synesis.

TYPES OF NOUNS

Abstract Nouns: Things which cannot be seen ("truth", "beauty", "loneliness", etc.)
Concrete Nouns: Things which can be seen and grasped easily ("rice", "bed", etc.)
Common Nouns: Any person, place or thing ("computer", "house", "book", etc.)
Compound Nouns: Gerunds can be used in compound nouns (like "driving lesson"). See a list here.
Mass Nouns (such as "weather").
Proper Nouns: Name of a specific person, place or thing (capitalised.)
In general, it seems that articles are used before CONCRETE and COMMON NOUNS.

Possessive noun: ask yourself to whom does the object, idea or quality belong?

Pronouns

PRONOUNS ACT as substitutes for nouns. Personal pronouns include "I", "you", "he" and "she" (all in the nominative case). If they are in the accusative case, they would be "me", "you", "him" and "her", respectively... (For more details on pronouns, )

UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS list: click here.

If an uncountable noun is the subject of a sentence, it should have a definite article.

Since “people” is the plural form of “person”, this sentence should be, “There are not so many affluent people.” Sometimes “people” can be singular, but in that case it refers to a particular ethnic group (like “the many peoples of the world.”)

DOUBLE NOUNS: See here.
Note the difference in meaning between "Mother Nature" and "Mother's Nature". If there is no apostrophe + s after the first noun, then the second noun has importance (Mother Nature is about nature, not mother).


Gerunds

Gerunds can be subject, object and also the object of a preposition.

Like gerunds, deverbals are nouns derived from verbs. Unlike gerunds, they can be made plural (such as "weddings", "singers", etc.)




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