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Definition:-
Noun is parts of speech which indefinitely and describe different kinds of names, like name of people, object, place, quality etc.
Example:- Mahatma Gandhi, India, Kolkata, Ganga, Bus, Sun etc.
There you can see all of these are identify a particular name, like Mahatma Gandhi is a name of a person and Kolkata is the name of a place. So that’s why these all are a noun.
Types of Noun:-
There are 8 different kinds of noun. These different kinds of noun can help to identify the various types of nous. So the name of the types are-
1) Proper Noun
2) Common Noun
3) Concrete Noun
4) Abstract Noun
5) Compound Noun
6) Collective Noun
7) Countable noun
8) Un Countable noun
Pronoun:-
Definition:-
Pronoun is parts of speech which is replaced noun or used in the place of noun in a sentence, it identity noun in a sentence.
Example:-
He, she, we, they, how, who, which, us, etc is a pronoun.
Rita is good girl. She go school daily.
Here Rita is a noun as it define name, in the next sentence She is replaced Rita , it identity the noun in the next sentence, so She is a pronoun.
He is good runner.
She is the prettiest girl.
They can not beat us.
Types of pronoun:-
There 10 types of pronoun. These different kinds of pronoun can help to identify the various types of nous. So the name of the types are-
- Personal pronouns
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Interrogative pronoun
- Indefinite pronouns
- Possessive pronouns
- Reciprocal pronouns
- Relative pronouns
- Reflexive pronouns
- Distributive pronoun
- Intensive pronoun