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Nouns that name common (non personal) objects. Cow, house, cat are common nouns. Peter and Paul are personal nouns.Common nouns are not capitalized.

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A proper noun is the name of a specific thing, person, place.
woman is a common noun, Adriana is a proper noun.
both capital and comic strip are common nouns. Paris and Garfield are proper nouns

Wherever you are, look around you. Identify 10 objects. Write their names down in a list. Common nouns are nouns that have many references (or that can refer to many objects.)
If I say The Round Table, you gather that I am talking about King Arthur's table, a unique idea. (proper noun).
However if I say:
In the kitchen there was a round table and a few chairs
there is nothing specific about that round table, just a table that happens to be round. (common noun).
A city (common noun) could be any city, anywhere in the world and the Moon, but the City (proper noun) refers to a specific place in London.

A noun is any physical or imaginary object.
A verb is anything that an object can do.
A pronoun is a special reusable "general purpose" noun used to indicate another noun.
An adjective (you missed that one) is a word that describes a noun.
An adverb is a word that describes a verb.

For example, "My red ladder folds easily - it is new".
"Ladder" is a noun, a physical object. "Folds" is a verb - it tells what the ladder can do. "My" and "red" are both adjectives; they describe the ladder (the noun). "Easily" is an adverb; it describes how the ladder folds (describes the verb). "It" is a pronoun, which is reusable because the same "it" could be used to indicate a ladder, a car, a shirt, a philosophy, an incident, nearly any noun. "is" is another verb, telling something that "it" can do (it can "be" something). "New" is another adjective, describing the ladder.

Here's a link to a list with over 1,000 nouns. List of Nouns

A plural noun is more than one noun.
A "man" is a noun. The "man" plural noun is "men".
A "dog" is a noun. The "dog" plural noun is "dogs".

A proper noun is the name of a "specific" person, place or thing, i.e., John, Mary, America, France and are almost always capitalized. Common nouns name a general person place of thing, i.e. man, woman, country. Common nouns are seldom capitalized.

rules change year to year ,, if your in tournament play, but for the in home player here are the printed rules for the game Acceptable words are the primary entries in some chosen dictionary, and all of their inflected forms. Words that are hyphenated, capitalized (such as proper nouns), or apostrophized are not allowed, unless they also appear as acceptable entries: "Jack" is a proper noun, but the word JACK is acceptable because it has other usages as a common noun (automotive, vexillological, etc.) and verb that are acceptable. Acronyms or abbreviations, other than those that have been regularized (such as AWOL, RADAR, LASER, and SCUBA), are not allowed. Variant spellings, slang or offensive terms, archaic or obsolete terms, and specialized jargon words are allowed if they meet all other criteria for acceptability. Foreign words are not allowed in the English language Scrabble unless they have been incorporated into the English language - for example, the words "patisserie" and "glace".

Kinds of Nouns:

1. Abstract
2. Collective
3. Common
4. Concrete
5. Countable
6. Mass
7. Material
8. Plural
9. Pronoun
10. Proper
11. Singular
12. Uncountable

Classifications of Types of Nouns
Proper Noun: This is used to denote a particular person, place or a thing.
Examples: English is a global language.

Common Noun : This is used to refer to a class.
Examples: The cat loves comfort.

Collective Nouns: This is used to refer to a group or a collection of things.
Examples: I saw a herd of sheep nearby.

Concrete nouns: You can experience this group of nouns with your five senses. These nouns can all be touched, smelt, tasted or seen.
Examples: The cute rabbit hops around.

Countable Nouns: To linguists, these count nouns can occur in both single and plural forms, can be modified by numerals, and can co-occur with quantificational determiners like many, most, more, several, etc.
Examples: There were so many bikes on sale.

Material Nouns : This is used to tell the substance by which the things are made.
Examples: The chair is made of bamboo.

Pronouns: These nouns can take the place of a noun when referring to people places or things. In English the personal pronouns are I, you, he, she, it and they. Depending on their function within a sentence these nouns can take on their possessive forms or their objective case.
Examples: Suzy will let her hair grow longer. possessive personal
He jumped on the bed. singular personal

Abstract Noun: It is used to indicate the quality possessed by a person or thing.
Examples: I appreciate your sincerity.

Uncountable Nouns: These nouns cannot be counted they are often referred to as mass nouns. These nouns cannot be used in a plural form.
Examples: The pool was full of water. The uncountable noun in this sentence is water.
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