The telephone rang.
Jim is cooking dinner.
Mr Tan is teaching his pupils mathematics.
Can you pick out the nouns? They are 'telephone', 'Jim', 'dinner', 'Mr Tan', 'pupils' and 'mathematics'. A noun is the name of a person, animal, thing, place or idea. There are different types of nouns.
Common Nouns are general names. They can be counted or cannot be counted. A singular count noun refers to one while a plural count noun refers to more than one.
Proper Nouns are special names that begin with a capital letter.
Collective Nouns refer to groups.
Abstract Nouns refer to ideas, feelings and qualities that you cannot touch.
