| Nouns | ||||||
| Types | Proper | Common | Collective | |||
| Meanings | Names and nicknames of definite people, places, things | Names of any object, thing, phenomenon | Name the sum total, the whole complex of things | |||
| Peculiarities | Do not have a generalized conceptual content, meaning | Have a generalized conceptual content, meaning | Present the whole complex as a certain unite | |||
| Varieties | _ | Concrete | Abstract | Material | Have the opposition of Singular and Plural Number | Do not have the opposition |
| Examples | John (the name of a man), Mr. Fix-it (the nickname of a man), Sevastopol (the name of a town), Crimea (the name of a geographical place, of a peninsular) etc. | table, man, girl, apple, book, etc. | idea, friendship, faith, serendipity, joy, etc | water, oil, sugar, gold, acid, petrol, etc. | family – families, class – classes, people – peoples = folk – folks, society – societies, nation –nations, etc. | people (as a sum total of human beings), humanity, mankind, nature (as the sum total of animals, plants, things in the universe), etc. |
The second classification of the Noun is based on the principle of opposition – individual ‘personal’ names and names for other things. It is schematically presented in the table 3.2.
Table 3.2