Nouns

Types:
 Proper Noun: Name of specific person, place or thing.
 Common Noun: Name of common things like boys, chair, girls etc.
 Collective Noun: Collection of some persons or things and represented as a singular
noun. Ex: class , army , herd , flight etc.
 Abstract Noun: Whom we cannot touch like happiness, sadness etc.
 Materialistic Noun: From whom something is comprised of known as materialistic
Noun.

Further classifications are:

Rule No: 1.

Uncountable Nouns

There are some rules which are uncountable nouns.

• We cannot measure uncountable nouns. like ‘ Informations’ wrong phrase.
•  We always use singular verb with uncountable nouns.
•  Plural of these words does not exist.

Some examples of uncountable nouns are:

Examples:

•  Children are prone to making mischiefs if they have nothing to do. [Correct: mischief]
•  I saw beautiful sceneries in painting exhibition. [Correct: scenery]
•  I ate three breads today. [Correct: bread or three slices of bread]
•  She gave two jeweleries. [Correct: jewellery or a piece of jewellery]

Rule No: 2

There are some nouns which seem to be plural but are singular

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News Summons Innings Series

Examples:

•  News is coming on tv.
•  The morale of the army was high the news coming from the front were very encouraging.
•  1st inningsis going on.[Correct:Inning]
•  A 5 match series is being played between India and Australia in Melbourne.

Rule No: 3

There are some nouns which to be singular but exists in plural so use plural verb with it.

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Infantry Police Cattle People

Examples:

• There was no Gentry in function. [Correct: were]
•  Police has been deployed all over the route. [Correct: have]

Gentry : Group of Gentlemen
Infantry(Troop): Collection of soldiers

Rule No: 4

There are some nouns which exists both in singular and plural form. Nature of verb depends
upon sense of sentence and noun.
Words:

• Team
•  Committee
•  Audience
•  Jury
•  House

Examples:

• Our team is the best team.
•  Our team are trying their new dresses today.
•  A committee is formed for the welfare of society.
•  A committee were appointed for the welfare of society.

Rule No: 5

There are some nouns which is to be plural , they also exist in form but cannot be converted into
singular form.
Note: Always use singular verb with them untill they specified numeral.

Examples:

• A pair of spectacles have be bought by me. [Correct:has]
•  He read the letter and made aware of its contents. [Correct:content]
•  All the evidences were against and he was held guilty. [Correct:evidence,was]

Numerical Adjective Noun Case

When in a sentence there is a numerical adjective with a noun, we cannot use the plural of
that noun if after there is another noun.

Examples:
Incorrect : He is a twenty years old boy. [ In this sentence we cannot use ‘s’ with ‘year’
because after years there is a another noun ‘boy’ ]
Correct: He is a twenty year old boy.


• The boy is twenty years old.
•  Twenty kms are a long distance. [Correct: is]
•  He walked twenty kms.
•  Twenty kms walk is a long distance. [Correct: km]
•  The five members delegation will call on the president.

Noun-Preposition-Noun Case

Preposition: in, on, at, of, for, after, before, into, with, by, between, among,….etc
Examples:

• Town after town has been devastated. [Correct]
•  Rows upon Rows of pink marbles are to the eyes. [Correct:Row upon Row, is]

Use of Apostrophe ‘s’ : (‘s)
The Ram House of ram = Ram’s house

Rule 1
1. Never use apostrophe with non-living like wood, table,chair etc.

2.We can use (” ‘s “) with nouns which not come in the category of living and non-living.

Ex:

• Canada’s Problems
•  Nature’s law
•  A meter’s length
•  A Kg’s sugar

Examples:

• Ram and sham’s house
• I visited John’s and Mary’s house twice but found the couple absent. [Correct:John and Mary’s]
• His wife’s secretary’s mother has died.

In this sentence the structure of sentence is not correct.
Correct: Mother of his wife’s secretary has died.

Rule:2

Two apostrophe cannot come together in a single sentence.

Rule: 3

We can use “;” only with the words which are ended with ‘s’.
Ex: ‘Kalidas’ work

• He was late and entered the female compartment in hurry. [Correct: Women’s or ladies’]
•  We reached the fare and found that there was no place to stand. [Correct: room]

Subject-Verb Agreement

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