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Background
Currently, English is not foreign to us as a student, because English is the international language that must to be studied by us. At this, the English language is very important for us that will continue into the world of work, almost all companies require us to be able to use English properly.

The Purpose
Explaining about Noun to the reader, and also the writer. Increasing our knowledge. fulfill the task of English paper about Noun.

Whats Is Noun
The word noun comes from the Latin nomen meaning name. In linguistic, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. nouns may be defined as those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjective and can function as the head of a noun phrase.

Function
A noun can function in a sentence as a subject, a direct object, an indirect object, a subject complement, an object complement, an appositive, an adjective or an adverb.

Classification noun in English

Grammarians have developed a whole series of noun types, including the singular noun and plural noun #Rules proper noun the common noun the countable noun (also called the count noun) the non-countable noun (also called the mass noun), and the collective noun.

Singular Nouns
Singular Noun Definition: When a noun means one only, it is said to be singular. Examples: boy, girl, book, church, box.

Plural Nouns
Plural Noun Definition: When a noun means more than one, it is said to be plural. Examples: boys, girls, books, churches.

Irregular Plural
Examples : man > men foot > feet mouse > mice woman > women tooth > teeth louse > lice child > geese The following nouns have no singular: scissors, oats, tongs dregs, trousers, pinchers, bellows, snuffers, cattle, shears, measles, mumps, victuals, tweezers, vespers, Some nouns are always singular. Some of these nouns may be used in the plural when different kinds are meant as: sugars, coffees, cottons, gold, silver, wheat, corn, molasses, copper, sugar, cotton, news, gallows, mathematics, ethics (other words ending in ics).

Rule #1 The plural of nouns is usually formed by adding s to a singular noun. Example: lamp, lamps; cat, cats; fork, forks; flower, flowers; pen, pens. Rule #2 Nouns ending in s, z, x, sh, and ch form the plural by adding es. Example: moss, mosses buzz, buzzes box, boxes

dish, dishes church, churches

Rule #3 Nouns ending in y preceded by a consonant is formed into a plural by changing y to ies. Examples: lady, ladies; city, cities; army, armies Rule #4 Nouns ending in y preceded by a vowel form their plurals by adding s. Example: boy, boys; day, days Rule #5 Most nouns ending in o preceded by a consonant is formed into a plural by adding es. Example: hero; heroes; grotto, grottoes

Rule #6
Some nouns ending in f or fe are made plural by changing f or fe to ves. Example: beef, beeves; wife, wives

Proper Nouns
A proper noun is a name given to a specific person, place, or thing. Proper nouns begin with capital letters.

Example:
The Marroons were transported from Jamaica and forced to build the fortifications in Halifax.

Common Nouns
A common noun is a noun referring to a person, place, or thing in a general sense usually. Common noun written with a capital letter only when it begins a sentence.

Example:
According to the sign, the nearest town is 60 miles away. All the gardens in the neighbourhood were invaded by beetles this summer.

Countable Noun
A countable noun (or count noun) is a noun with both a singular and a plural form, and it names anything (or anyone) thats can count. Countable nouns can be singular or plural in a sentence.

Example:
dog, cat, animal, man, person bottle, box, litre coin, note, dollar cup, plate, fork table, chair, suitcase, bag

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The Non-countable Noun
A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, a non-countable noun always takes a singular verb in a sentence and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count.

Example:
music, art, love, happiness advice, information, news furniture, luggage rice, sugar, butter, water, oxygen electricity, gas, power money, currency

Collective Nouns
Collective nouns are nouns that refer to groups consisting of more than one individual or entity, even when they are inflected for the singular. Examples include committee, herd, and school (of fish). These nouns have slightly different grammatical properties than other nouns. For example, the noun phrases that they head can serve as the subject of a collective predicate, even when they are inflected for the singular. In each of the following sentences, the highlighted word is a collective noun:
The flock of geese spends most of its time in the pasture. The collective noun "flock" takes the singular verb "spends."

Conclusion
Noun is a member of a large open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. A noun can function in a sentence as a subject, a direct object, an indirect object, a good complement, an object complement, an appositive, an adjective or an adverb.