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What are examples of nouns?

Here are some examples of nouns, categorized by type:

Common Nouns:

* People: teacher, student, doctor, artist, friend, neighbor

* Places: school, hospital, park, city, country, beach

* Things: book, pencil, phone, car, computer, chair

* Concepts: love, happiness, freedom, justice, truth, peace

Proper Nouns:

* People: Jane Doe, Abraham Lincoln, Beyoncé, Stephen King

* Places: New York City, Mount Everest, The Amazon Rainforest, Buckingham Palace

* Things: The Mona Lisa, the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China, the Titanic

* Organizations: Google, NASA, United Nations, Red Cross

Collective Nouns:

* Groups of people: team, crowd, family, jury, committee, choir

* Groups of animals: herd, flock, pack, swarm, school (of fish)

* Other groups: bouquet (of flowers), fleet (of ships), constellation (of stars)

Abstract Nouns:

* Ideas: freedom, justice, love, truth, beauty, hope

* Qualities: honesty, kindness, courage, strength, wisdom, intelligence

* States of being: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, excitement, boredom

Countable Nouns:

* Can be singular or plural: dog, book, house, apple, idea, person

Uncountable Nouns:

* Cannot be made plural: water, sand, air, advice, information, music

Gerunds (Nouns formed from verbs):

* Running, swimming, reading, writing, listening, dancing, cooking, sleeping

Other Examples:

* Materials: wood, metal, plastic, cotton, glass

* Substances: water, air, oil, gas, salt, sugar

* Events: wedding, birthday, concert, graduation, meeting

* Periods of time: year, month, day, hour, minute, second

Important Notes:

* Nouns can be used as the subject or object of a sentence.

* Nouns can be modified by adjectives.

* Nouns can be singular or plural.

* Nouns can be concrete (physical objects) or abstract (ideas).

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