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Nouns and pronouns
What are nouns and pronouns?
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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
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Noun in English grammar is defined as a naming word, which is used to name a person, place or a thing. A noun is a part of speech, Nouns can basically be classified into five types:
1. PROPER NOUN: A proper noun is a special name of a particular person, place or thing. It always begins with a capital letter.
Ex: Ravi, Sheela, Akbar (Person)
Delhi, London, Agra (Place)
Television, Book, Table (Thing)
2. COMMON NOUN: A common noun is the general ordinary name of a person. Place or a thing.
Ex: Boy, Girl, Man, Women (Person)
Village, City, Town (Place)
Car, Furniture (Thing)
3. COLLECTIVE NOUN: A collective noun is the name of a group or a collection of similar person.
Ex: Committee, Fleet, a flock of birds, a group of dancers, a parliament of owl.
4. ABSTRACT NOUN: An abstract noun is the name of a quality a person or a thing have, action they take or state they find themselves in.
Ex: Darkness, Kindness, Bravery, Brightness.
5. MATERIAL NOUN: A material noun is the name of a substance of which a certain thing is made up of.
Ex: Iron, gold, brass, marble, copper
Pronoun is a word in the basic English grammar which defines a noun, there are total eleven classifications of pronoun:
1. Personal Pronoun
2. Reflexive Pronoun
3. Emphatic Pronoun
4. Demonstrative Pronoun
5. Indefinite Pronoun
6. Interrogative Pronoun
7. Distributive Pronoun
8. Reciprocal Pronoun
9. Relative Pronoun
10. Relative compound Pronoun
11. Possessive Pronoun