NOUN : COUNTABILITY

                              -:NOUN : COUNTABILITY :- 

    Nouns are of two kinds from the viewpoints of countability:

    (a) COUNTABLE NOUNS

    (b) UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

     (a) COUNTABLE NOUNS :- Nouns that can be counted are called Countable

    Nouns. Generally countable noun is the answer to the question, how many ?.

    Examples: a girl,             one girl,           two girls,        four girls, 

                    a book,              one book,        two books,       six books,  etc.

    Q.    How many girls are there?

    A.       There are four girls there.

    Therefore, common nouns and collective nouns are the kinds of Countable Nouns.

     (b) UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS :- Nouns that can not be counted are called

    Uncountable Nouns. Material nouns and Abstract nouns are Uncountable nouns.

    Examples: milk, ink, water, butter, sugar, beauty, etc.

                    

NOUN & KINDS OF NOUN

     

                                                        NOUN & KINDS OF NOUN

    NOUN :- A Noun is a word used as the name of a person,

     place or thing.

             اسم وہ لفظ ہے جسسے کسی شخص مقام یا چیز کا نام سمجھا جا ئے    

                                                           .اسے اسم کہتے ہیں

                                  -: KINDS OF NOUN:-

    Nouns are of five different kinds; as,

    1. PROPER NOUN

    2. COMMON NOUN

    3. COLLECTIVE NOUN

    4. MATERIAL NOUN

    5. ABSTRACT NOUN

     1. PROPER NOUN :- A proper noun is the name of a particular

    person, place or thing. 

     A proper noun always begins with a capital letter.

         Yasmin lives in Mumbai.

                    In this sentence, Yasmin is the name of a particular girl

        and Mumbai is the name of a particular city. Hence, Yasmin and

        Mumbai are Pronouns.

    2. COMMON NOUN :- A Common noun is a name common to

    each or every person thing of the same class or kind, not to a                     particular person or thing:

           COMMON NOUN                    PROPER NOUN

            girl (any girl)                    Yasmin (a particular girl's name)

        boy (any boy)                      Saklen (a particular boy's name)

        road (any road)                   M. G. Road(a particular Road's name)

        book (any book)                 The Quraan (a particular book's name)

    3. COLLECTIVE NOUN :- A Collective noun is the name of a group

    of collection of persons, or things of the same kind:

    Example : class, family, army, committee, team, government

                    federation, nation, crowd, etc.

    4. MATERIAL NOUN :- A material noun denotes matter or 

        substance which can not be separeted and counted but it can

        be weighted or measured. 

        Examples: gold, milk, iron, water, rice, meat, wheat, silver, coal,                                  steel, copper, silk, etc.

    5. ABSTRACT NOUN :- An abstract noun is the name of a quality, 

    action, feeling, or state.

    Examples : 

                Quality : Goodness, Kindness, wisdom, bravery, honesty, etc.

             Action : hatred, laughter, Judgement, movement, marriage, etc.

        State : Childhood, sleep, leadership, slavery, infancy, death, etc.