1. Types (
Nouns )
4
1 2
2 3
3 4
4 7 7 3 material nouns,
concrete nouns mass nouns common nouns
2 3 4 7
Common Nouns Common Nouns Common Nouns 1. Common Nouns
Proper Nouns Proper Nouns Proper Nouns 2. Proper Nouns
Abstract Nouns Abstract Nouns 3. Abstract Nouns
Collective Nouns 4. Collective Nouns
5. Material Nouns
6. Concrete Nouns
7. Mass Nouns
Common Noun (
person, animal,
place, thing, idea )
proper nouns common nouns
boy, sign, table,hill, water, sugar, atom, elephant
city, hill, road, stadium,school,company
revolution, journey, meeting
fear, hate, love
year, minute,millennium
Common Nouns Countable)
Uncountable
Countable Nouns
dog, man, coin , note, dollar, table, suitcase
day,month, year, action, feeling
UncountableNouns Mass Nouns
furniture, luggage, rice, sugar ,water ,gold
music, love, happiness, knowledge,advice ,
information
Common countable Common uncountable
indefinite( definite( indefinite( definite(
Singular a cow the cow milk the milk
plural cows the cows - -

2. Common Nouns Capital letter )
Ther are manychildrenon the beach.Childrenlove toswim.
Proper Nouns (
Common Noun
Person Name) Somsak , Tom,Daeng
Place Name) Australia,Bangkok,Sukhumvit Road,
Toyota
Time name ) Saturday, January, Christmas
Proper Nouns Capital letter )
Proper Nouns determiner
the Jones (
the United States, the Himalayas
The
WhiteHouse, the Sahara ( ,
the Pacific ( Ocean ), the Vatican, theKremlin
( articles – the
common nouns proper nouns
Common Nouns Proper Nouns
dog Lassie (
boy Jack (
car Toyota (
month January (
road Sukhumvit (
university Chulalongkorn (
ship U.S.S. Enterprise (
country Thailand (
Abstract Nouns
touch-
, sight- ,taste- , hearing- , smell-
Abstract Nouns verb) , adjective)
noun

3. Abstract Nouns Abstract Nouns Abstract Nouns
decision - to decide beauty - beautiful infancy - infant
thought - to think poverty - poor childhood - child
Imagination - to
vacancy - vacant friendship - friend
imagine
speech - to speak happiness - happy
growth - to grow wisdom - wise
Collective Nouns
family , class,
company, committee, cabinet,audience, board, group, jury, public, society,
team, majority orchestra, party a flock of birds, a herd of
cattle ,a fleet of ships
Theaverage British familyhas members.
The familyarealways fighting among themselves.
(
Thecommitteehasreached its decision.
(
The committeehavebeen arguing all morning over whatthey
should do.
(
Collective noun people,
police,cattle
of
Collective noun +of
+commonnoun
a flockof birds a group of students
a flock of sheep a pack of cards
a herd of cattle a bunch of flowers
a fleet of ships a kilo of pork
ConcreteNouns

4. touch- ,
sight- , taste- , hearing- , smell- book ,
chair, water, oil , ice cream
abstract nouns.
Material Nouns
common nouns
iron, gold, air,copper
, stone, cotton, brick, paper,cloth
water, coffee, wine, tea, milk
rice, bread, sugar, pork, fish, butter, fruit, salad
quantity)
a bowl of rice two glasses of water
two boxes of cereal a loaf of bread
five bottles of beer a slice of pizza
a cup of tea a piece of paper
three bars of soap a quart of milk
material nouns tea (
I want sometea I wanta cup
of tea. )
I want sometea I want apacket of
tea.
I like theirteas Ilike their selection ofteas
Mass nouns
uncountable nouns
abstract nouns ) sugar, iron ,butter, beer, money, blood, furniture,
vehicle, courage,gratitude, mercy ,accuracy
a , an , the determiners
some any
Bloodisthicker than water. uncountable )
Depressionoftenaffectswomenimmediately following the birth of
their babies
abstract nouns )
Hedroppedsomemoneyon thefloor.

5. mass nouns material nouns + concrete nouns
abstract nouns nouns
furniture, luggage,equipment, money
furniture
table, chair
water concrete nouns material nouns honesty
mass nouns abstractnouns
Proper nouns John, London
Concrete chair,book,student
Countable
nouns two flocks of birds
Collective nouns
,people
Nouns
Common nouns Concrete nouns ice cream,oil,water
Mass Nouns furniture,money,honesty
Uncountable
Nouns Material nouns water,bread,oxygen,gold
honesty,
Abstract nouns
friendship,honesty
articles
Arti
cles
Common Nouns Proper Nouns
Countable Nouns Uncountable Nouns Singular Plural
Singular Plural Singular Plural
the
the article (the
the the
(the - (John) Jones)
(definite ) (the boy ) (the water )
boys)
a/an article
article - -
(indefinite ) (a tiger) (water)
( tiger)
Countable/Uncountable Nouns -

6. Countable Nouns (
– dog, chair , tree, school, country,
student,biscuit
( - day , month, year, weekend,
journey
job,assignment
dog,country,day,year
dogs,countries,days,years
determiners
I wantanorange. ( Iwant orange.)
Where isthebottle? ( Where is bottle?)
Do you wantthisbook?
articles
I like to feedthe birds. articles )
Catsare interesting pets. ( article )
I wantthosebookson the table. ( those determiners )
Uncountable Nouns (
abstractnouns
Concrete water,milk, butter, furniture, luggage,
iron,equipment,clothing,garbage,junk
Abstract : anger, courage,satisfaction,happiness,knowledge
English,German,Spain
hockey,football, tennis
sociology,medicine, anthropology
swimming,eating
news, money,mail,work,homework,gossip, education, weather,
difficulty, information,feminism,optimism,machinery,information,
research,traffic,scenery,breakfast,accomodation, advice, permission
articles
I havebreadandbutterforbreakfast every morning. (
We cannotlive withoutairandwater

7. Information isoften valuable.(
Sunlightandwaterareusually required for plants to grow. (
My favorite breakfastis cereal with fruit, milk, orange juice, and
toast.
Uncountable nouns verb
Butterisfattening
two cupsof water, three piecesof information,fivepatches of
sunlight
three gamesof hockey,two lumpsofsugar
I needtwo lumps of sugarfor my
coffee.
Two glasses of milk areenough. (
are glasses
articles this,that,, these, those
the )
a,an the this/that these/those no articles
Countable noun
xx xx xx - -
singular
Countable noun
- xx - xx xx
plural
Uncountable - xx xx - xx
I wantanorange. ( I want orange.)
Where isthebottle? ( Where is bottle?)
Do you wantthisbook?
I wantthosebooks up there
Quantifiers
much, less, some, any, many, both, several, each, every,
little, a little, most, more, all, few/fewer/fewest, a any, one
very little, a a lot of, no, few, one of the, a
large none of couple of, two,
amount of, the,enough, twenty
other, the
other,such
Countable
xx
singular
Countable plural xx xx

8. (+s
Uncountable xx xx
Countablesingular :
Out ofevery five menonly two were
fit.
I'd likeonedonut, please.
Countableplural:
Can I havesomebiscuits?
She hasa lotofbooks.
I havefewerpencils than you.
Uncountable:
Can I havesomewater
She hasa lotofstrength,andmuchis due to
herupbringing. I
havelesscourage than you.
Countable
Uncountable
abuse ( faith ( nature (
adulthood ( fear ( paper (
afternoon ( fiction ( passion (
age ( film ( people (
anger ( fish ( personality (
appearance (
flavor ( philosophy (
art ( food ( power (
beauty ( friendship ( reading (
beer ( fruit ( religion (
belief ( glass ( revision (
breakfast ( government ( rock (
science ( ,
cheese ( hair (
chicken ( history ( school (
childhood ( innocence ( shock (
college ( jail ( society (
competition ( jealousy ( sorrow (
crime ( language ( space (
culture ( law ( speech (

9. death ( liberty ( spirit ( ,
divorce ( life ( stone (
disease ( love ( strength (
drama ( lunch ( teaching (
temptation (
duck ( man (
education ( marriage ( theater (
environment ( meat ( theory (
evening ( metal ( time (
exercise (
milk ( trouble (
fact ( morning ( wine (
I likeduck uncountablenoun )
I likeducks countable noun )
Beerisa bitter drink. ( uncountable noun )
I think Iorderedtwobeers countable
noun )
Lifeisfull of surprise. uncountablenoun )
A cat hasninelives countablenoun )
Paperismade from wood. uncountable noun )
She wrotethreepapersin oneweek. (
countable noun )
Religionhasbeena powerful force in history.
uncountable noun )
Manyreligionsarepracticed in the United States.
countable noun )
uncountable nouns countable ( plural )
alcohol ( knowledge (
clothing ( lighting (
courage ( thunder (
freedom ( machinery (
fun ( money (
furniture ( music (
information ( scenery (