NOUNS الأسماء

Definition: The word ‘noun’ comes from Latin

nomen meaning

‘name’. A noun is the name of a thing.

Everything that exists has

a name, whether you can see it or not.

A blind person cannot see

something, but that does not mean that

it isn’t there! It may only

exist in our minds, like hope, beauty or calories

There are four kinds of nouns

Common nounsالأسماء العامة

These are names of everyday things

that we can see, hear or touch

For example:

table, banana, volcano, song

We can put the word ‘the’ in front of

them and make sense, as in

the rope, the poison

If it does not make sense, the word cannot be a noun

Proper nounsالأسماء الخاصة ( أسماء العلم )

Definition: The word ‘proper’ comes from

the French word propre

meaning one’s own, i.e. belonging to

a particular person or thing

Proper nouns are the special names

that we give to people,

places and particular things like the days of

the week, months of

the year, or even the titles of books or TV shows

For example:

Jason, Town Hall, China, French, The Wishing Chair

Because they are special and individual names,

they start with a

capital letter and, apart from people,

most of these things have

only one proper name

Collective nouns الأسماء الجمع

Definition: These are names for groups of things,

animals or

people, which go together, or have

something in common

For example:

A number of people in a group singing is a choir

A number of cows in a group is a herd

Note here that if the group word is singular

then the verb following

must also be singular

For example:

Correct – The choir was rehearsing in the chapel

Incorrect – The choir were rehearsing in the chapel

There may, of course, be more than one group.

In which case the

verb will be plural

The choirs were competing in the final

Abstract nounsالأسماء المعنوية

Definition: Abstract nouns form what

can be the most difficult

group to understand, as they represent ideas,

and have no physical

substance that you can see or touch

The idea may be of quality

For example: beauty, greed, intelligence

or the idea may be a state that is felt or suffered,

For example: joy, misery, neglect

It may be the act of something

For example: duty, aggression

It may even be an event or happening

for example: conversation, pause

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