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PART II MORPHOLOGY

THE NOUN: KINDS OF NОUNS

The noun is the word expressing the substantivity in the widest sense of this word.

Classification by meaning, form and function.

The classification of nouns by meaning is the semantic classification.

Nouns are divided into:

1) Masculine (denoting male beings)

2) Feminine (denoting female beings)

3) Neuter (denoting lifeless things and abstract notions)

4) Common (denoting both female and male beings)

All nouns are divided into two big groups: Proper and Common nouns.

Common nouns are subdivided into 4 groups:

1) Class nouns

2) Material nouns

3) Collective nouns (family, government, police)

4) Abstract nouns (music, poetry, leafage)

Kinds of Nouns

Noun:a word used for naming some person or thing.

Proper:a name given to one particular person or thing, and not intended to denote more than one person or thing at a time; as John, London, Windsor Castle, the Bible.

Common:a name that may stand for any number of persons or things of the same kind; as man, city, castle, book.

Collective:a name given to a group, collection, or multitude; as herd, flock, class, library, pack.

Material:a name denoting some kind of matter or substance; as mutton, grass, fruit, bread, water, oil, grease, blacking.

Abstract:a name denoting some quality, state or action, apart from any object or objects; as hardness, fever, pride, humility.

Genders of Nouns

Masculinedenotes males, as father; Femininedenotes females, as mother; Common,either sex, as parent.

Neuterdenotes neither sex (or things without life), as book, bread, fever.

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