Noun Part 2

VERBS to NOUN 

• Read  –   Reader
• Write  –  Writer
• Run  –  Runner
• Sell   –  Seller
• Speak   – Speaker
• Kill  –   Killer
• Think   –  Thinker
• Mix  –   Mixer
• Sing   –  Singer
• Play   –  Player
• Call  –  Caller
• Follow  –  Follower
• Fight  – Fighter
• Clean –  Cleaner

N⭕TE – प्रायः Verb में er suffix जोड़ने पर Noun शब्द बनता है। We get Common Nouns by adding “er suffix” to the Verbs.

• Ravi is an eminent singer.
• My friend is a fast bowler.
• Ranjan is a fruit seller.
• The killer was arrested soon.
• We saw the players in the railway station.
• He is a follower of Lord Buddha.

VERB का ing Form भी NOUN का कार्य करता है। VERB के ing Form को “GERUND” कहते हैं।

GERUNDS are Abstract Nouns.

we cannot count these nouns. actually these are the names of some works or actions that cannot be counted. So these are the abstract Nouns

Example

• Reading
• Writing
• Walking
• Running
• Swimming
• Smoking
• SpeakingTeaching
• Walking
• singing
• running
• teaching
• speaking
• smoking
• bowling
• jumping

Sentence – 

• Walking is a good exercise.
• Singing is his proffesion.
• Teaching is a noble proffesion.
• Swimming is a health improving sport.
• Smoking is very bad habit.
• Writing makes a man perfect.
• Listening is a language skill.

Construction of Nouns from Adjectives

Adjective to Noun 

• good – goodness
• bad – badness
• clean – cleanliness
• green – greenery
• happy – happiness
• careless – carelessness
• careful – carefulness
• fat – fatness
• long – length
• wide – width
• High – height
• Important – Importance
• independent – independence
• absent – absence
• Safe – safety
• Kind – kindness
• Strong – strength
• White – whiteness
• Weak  – weakness
• Great  – Greatness
• Grateful – Gratefulness
• Local – Locality
• Poor – Poverty
• Cruel – Cruelty
• Strict – Strictness
• Foolish – Foolishness

Note- In all the above sets of words the first words are ADJECTIVES and the second words are NOUNS. 

Important things about NOUNS

1. A noun has two numbers

Singular and Plural

Example 

• Book – books
• City – cities
• Fly – flies
• Leaf – leaves
• Knife – knives
• Emotion – emotions
• Target – targets
• Thought – thoughts
• Worry – worries

2. A noun is replaced by Pronouns.

I met Ramji.
He was reading a story book.
His brother’s name is Shyamaji.

Sudha is very intelligent.
She is preparing for the IAS.
Her college is in Shanti Nagar.

3. A noun can be the subject or the object in a sentence.

India is an Asian country.
Chanakya was a great economist.
Cows give milk.
Lion is considered the king of the jungle.

We are learning English.
Indians speak more than twenty languages.
There is a very big banyan tree.

4. Nouns are found in five types

• Common noun
• Proper noun
• Collective noun
• Material noun
• Abstract noun

5. Nouns are also divided in the following two types

• Countable noun – animal, book, elephant, city
• Uncountable noun – water, petrol, oil, food, rice, dust

6. Nouns are again divided in the two different groups

• Concrete noun
• Non-concrete noun

7. There are many nouns which function as verb too.

Name, cut, note, notice, mind, round, answer, question, seal, water, etc.

8. The grammatical term “Gender” too belongs to the part of speech “NOUN”

Types of Genders

• Masculine 
• Feminine  
• Neuter  
• Common  

Quiz 

Question- 25

Specially thanks to Post and Quiz makers ( With Regards )

Jitendra Kumar Patel Dhamtari CG, mukesh kumar sheshma, Meghali jain kota