List of Nouns
This list of nouns should help you understand nouns a little better. For definitions of the following noun categories, go to the
noun page.
Quick Refresher: Nouns are words that name people, places, things, or ideas. Before you look at the list of nouns, it is important to note that nouns will fit into more than one category. For example, the word train is a common, concrete, countable, singular noun.
Noun Type | Examples | | Common Nouns name people, places or things that are not specific. | man, mountain, state, ocean, country, building, cat, airline | | Proper Nouns name specific people, places, or things. | Walt Disney, Mount Kilimanjaro, Minnesota, Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Empire State Building, Fluffy, Sun Country | | Abstract Nouns name nouns that you can't perceive with your five sense. | love, wealth, happiness, pride, fear, religion, belief, history, communication | | Concrete Nouns name nouns that you can perceive with your five senses. | house, ocean, Uncle Mike, bird, photograph, banana, eyes, light, sun, dog, suitcase, flowers | | Countable Nouns name nouns that you can count. | bed, cat, movie, train, country, book, phone, match, speaker, clock, pen, David, violin | | Uncountalbe Nouns name nouns that you can't count. | milk, rice, snow, rain, water, food, music | | Compound Nouns are made up of two or more words. | tablecloth, eyeglasses, New York, photograph, daughter-in-law, pigtails, sunlight, snowflake | | Collective Nouns refer to things or people as a unit. | bunch, audience, flock, team, group, family, band, village | | Singular Nouns name one person, place, thing, or idea. | cat, sock, ship, hero, monkey, baby, match | | Plural Nouns name more than one person, place, thing, or idea. | cats, socks, ships, heroes, monkeys, babies, matches |
How Do You Diagram Nouns?Seeing a list of nouns is a great way to learn what a noun is. Sentence diagramming can teach you what a noun does. Sentence diagramming is a visual way to show how the words in a sentence are related to each other. Since nouns can do many things in a sentence, the way they are diagrammed depends on the way that they are acting in each sentence. Here is a diagram of the following noun jobs: subject, direct object, indirect object, and object of the preposition. 
Nouns can also act as a predicate noun. This kind of noun only comes after a linking verb. You can learn more about diagramming by going to the English grammar exercise page which will take you step by step through diagramming. Keep learning, and have fun!
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