According to their meanings, English nouns can be divided into two categories:
Proper Nouns and Common Nouns. Proper nouns refer to tne
names of persons, places and institutions, etc. Common nouns refer to those
of a group of people or things. Common nouns can be further divided into
countable nouns and uncountable nouns.
The following table shows the different catagories of the English nouns
| Catagories | Sub-catagories | Examples | ||
| English nouns | Proper nouns | John, London | ||
| Common nouns | Countable nouns | Individual nouns | map, box, story | |
| Collective nouns | people, family | |||
| Uncountable nouns | Material nouns | water, metal | ||
| Abstract nouns | honesty, happiness | |||