Nouns

    A noun is the name of person, places, or things. It may be proper or common. Proper nouns are the names of particular persons, places, or things. Common nouns are the names of things used by a class.

Examples of proper nouns:

Names of particular persons - Jose Rizal, Carmen Banez, Gloria, Fe, Hipolito Cruz.
Names of particular places - Bulacan, Pampanga, Masbate, Manila, Philippines, Europe, America
Names of particular things - Mayon Volcano, Pagsanjan Falls, Sierra Madre Mountain, Lake Buhi, Statue of Liberty, Observatory Hill.
Names pertaining to the deity - God, Lord, Saviour, Creator, Jesus Christ, Jehova, Bathala.

Common Nouns

Common nouns may be collective, concrete, and abstract. Collective nouns are those that denote a group or a multitude, as army, troop, family, crowd, audience, committee, herd, bevy, and flock. Concrete nouns are names of compact, tangible objects, and visible things, like house, rock, book, boy, pencil, paper, box, knife, tree, and mountain. Abstract nouns are nouns expressing the quailities of concrete nouns apart from the objects as badness, patience, charity, oblivion, roughness, beauty, endurance, goodness, and virtue.
To these three classes of common nouns, some authoritiesadd a fourth class , the Diminutives nouns. Here are some examples of these nouns that express a lessening of the thing or quality: rivulet, kitten, kitchenette, gosling.

Gender of Nouns

Gender denotes sex. A male nouns is in the masculine gender, a female noun, is in the feminine gender, and all sexless nouns are in the neuter gender.