Gobbledygook elucidates us on NOUNS....Let's hear from him....

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I see stars twinkling in the sky,

Birds chirping, fluttering wings and soaring high,

Flowers in the meadow bloom in full profusion,

Cows, bulls, sheep and goats create a lot of confusion.

Mike on his bicycle is heading home,

All day, in the town of Pharaohs he roamed.

NOUNS

A noun is a word which names a person, place, animal, quality, feelings or anything that we can think of.

Gobbledygook tells us to take a note of the following:-

“ The word 'thing' includes all the things that we can perceive by our senses- that we can hear, see, touch, taste and smell and also the things that we can think of like beauty, honesty, bravery, truth, sleep, birth, death, etc."

We can classify nouns into five kinds- Proper Nouns, Common Nouns, Collective Nouns, Abstract Nouns and Material Nouns.

Proper Noun: - Nouns denoting a particular person, place or thing e.g., Patrika, James, Mumbai, Italy, the Indus, the Ganges.

Common Noun:- Nouns denoting a class of objects, e.g., desk, table, room, chair, boy, man, lion, etc.

Collective Noun: - Nouns denoting several persons or things regarded as a single group, e.g., jury, class, committee, army, herd, bunch, fleet, flight, etc.

Abstract Noun:- Nouns denoting a quality, action or state--something which we cannot see, touch, etc. e.g., honesty, loyalty, truth, goodness, laughter, sleep.

Material Noun:- Nouns denoting a substance of which things are made, e.g., gold, copper, mud, paper, silk, rice.

Formation of Abstract Nouns:

Abstract Nouns can be formed:

From adjectives:-

• Brave -bravery.
• High - height.

From verbs:-

• Know-knowledge                   
• Judge-Judgement

From common nouns:-

• Child-children                        
• Slave-slavery

There are certain ways to form abstract nouns:-

Some Abstract Nouns are formed by adding -tion.

• Act-action                      
• Attract-attraction  
• Invent-invention          
• Imagine-imagination
• Perfect-perfection         
• Invite-invitation
• Educate-education
• Protect-protection
• Introduce-introduction
• Repeat-repetition 

Some Abstract Nouns are formed by adding-ment.

• Amaze- amazement
• Pay-payment
• Treat-treatment
• Punish-punishment
• Move-movement
• Appoint-appointment

Some Abstract nouns are formed by adding-ity

• Real-reality
• Stupid-stupidity
• Timid-timidity
• Moral-morality
• Curious-curiosity (the spelling changes)
• Generous-generosity (the spelling changes)
• Active-activity (the spelling changes)
• Stable -stability (the spelling changes)
• Noble -nobility (the spelling changes)
• Creative-creativity (the spelling changes)

Some words change totally when they are used as abstract nouns. Some of these words are:-

• Think- thought  
• Fly-flight           
• Sit-seat
• Long-length        
• Do-deed            
• Feed-food
• Proud-pride       
• Hear-hearing 
• See -sight
• Speak-speech    
• Hot-heat             
• Lose-loss

Look at these sentences. Read them aloud:-

• Thomas Alva Edison's invention changed the whole world.
• The teacher asked us to measure the length, width and the height of the table.
• The student's curiosity amazed the teacher.
• As a punishment for copying, the students had to clean the school.
• We have to face the reality that stability in life comes when we learn and grow in life.
• Use your imagination and give me an interesting introduction to the chapter.
• Please have a seat and tell me about the treatment that the doctor suggested.
• The heat generated by steam is used to run the machine.
• The activity conducted by our educator was very interesting.

GOBBLEDYGOOK says......practise well...Happy Noun-ing!!! :-)