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2. Common Noun : A common noun is a common name given to persons,

animals, places or things which are of the same class, same kind or same

group.

Example : The principal distributed sweets among the students in the school .

In the above sentence, the names principal , sweets , students and school have
been commonly used and can be given to any and every principal, sweet,

student and school .

3. Collective Noun : A collective noun is the name of the group of person or things
taken together as one.

The word army is the name given to a collection of soldiers. So, it is a collective

noun.

Example : I bought a bouquet of flowers and a bunch of bananas from the

market.
In the above sentence, the word bouquet stands for collection of flowers, and

bunch of bananas stands for a collection of bananas.

4. Material Noun : A material noun is the name of a material of which a thing is
made.

Example : Ornaments are made of gold and silver .
In the above sentence, the nouns gold and silver are the names of the

materials of which things can be made.

5. Abstract Noun : An abstract noun is the name of a quality, an action or a state.
We cannot see or touch it.

Here are some examples :

(a) Quality : Truth, bravery, goodness, determination

(b) Action :love, laugh, speech, weep

(c) State : sickness, died, childhood, happiness

Example : Birbal was known for his wisdom .

In the above sentence, the word wisdom is the name of a quality which we can

neither see nor touch but can only think of. Abstract nouns are uncountable.

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