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1. Nouns
Nouns name people, places, things, or ideas.
Kinds noun:
Proper
Proper nouns name specific people, places, things, or ideas.
Examples:
Britney, Paris, Rover, Nike

Common
Common nouns are the opposite of proper nouns. They are your run of the mill, generic nouns. They name people, places, things or ideas that are not specific.
Examples:
woman, city, dog, shoe
Collective Nouns
Collective nouns refer to groups of people, animals, or things.
Examples:
audience, band, class, club, crowd, collection, committee family, flock, group, herd, team
Example sentences:
Our class went to the museum today.

The audience clapped wildly at the end of the play
Concrete noun
A concrete noun is anything that can be perceived with our senses. We can see it, hear it, smell it, taste it or touch it.

Abstract Nouns
An abstract noun is a state, a quality or feeling that can not be perceived by the senses.
We cannot use our five senses to perceive happiness, jealousy, beauty, trust, loyalty,
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.

2. Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
These pronouns are used to demonstrate (or indicate). This, that, these and those are all demonstrative pronouns.

Examples:

This is the one I left in the car.ake the place of nouns.es, things, or ideas.
Indefinite Pronouns
Unlike demonstrative pronouns, which point out specific items, indefinite pronouns are used for non-specific things. This is the largest group of pronouns. All, some, any, several, anyone, nobody, each, both,few, either,