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Types Of Nouns
There are many different types of nouns. As you know, you capitalise some nouns, such as "Canada" or "Louise," and do not capitalise others, such as "badger" or "tree" (unless they appear at the beginning of a sentence).

In fact, grammarians have developed a whole series of noun types, including the proper noun, the common noun, the concrete noun, the abstract noun, the countable noun (also called the count noun), the non-countable noun (also called the mass noun), and the collective noun.

You should note that a noun will belong to more than one type: it will be proper or common, abstract or concrete, and countable or non-countable or collective.

Proper Nouns
 

You always write a proper noun with a capital letter, since the noun represents the name of a specific person, place, or thing.

The names of days of the week, months, historical documents, institutions,organisations, religions, their holy texts and their adherents are proper nouns.

A proper noun is the opposite of a common noun.
 

In each of the following sentences, the proper nouns are highlighted:

• The Marroons were transported from Jamaica and forced to build the fortifications in Halifax.
• Many people dread Monday mornings.
• Beltane is celebrated on the first of May.
• Abraham appears in the Talmud and in the Koran.
• Last year, I had a Baptist, a Buddhist, and a Gardnerian Witch as roommates.