Nouns are essential words in any language. They are used regularly in speaking and writing. Try to put together a couple of sentences without using a noun and you will have problems. We use nouns all the time and we see them all around us in our daily lives.
It is convenient to put the words that make up a language into groups according to what they do, and the noun group is massive. A noun is a word used to name a person, an object, a place, an animal or an idea.
Nouns are the first type of words that a baby learns to say when it starts to talk. We can draw pictures of most nouns if we want to and we can touch some nouns with our hands. Nouns can be divided into the following groups.
1. Proper Nouns - these are the names of people, days, months, organisations, places, titles of books or films. They are particular things. We begin a proper noun with a capital letter. Tom Cruise, Monday, January, World Health Organisation, Manchester, War of the Worlds.
2. Common Nouns - these are the names of everyday objects.
E.g. pen, book, boy.