Nouns

Basically, anything which is naming something is a noun.

Nouns can be split up into two groups. Common nouns, which are the names of everyday objects, and proper nouns, which are the names of people or places (or more simply, anything that would begin with a capital letter.)

Common	Proper
Table	Elizabeth
Ear	Georgia
Book	London

As well as these groups, nouns can also be split up into abstract nouns and concrete nouns. An concrete noun, very simply, is anything that you can touch, whereas an abstract noun is something you cannot, for example feelings.

Concrete	Abstract
Paper	Love
Money	Trust
Bed	Envy

The Noun Phrase

The noun phrase is made up from a noun and either a pre or post modifier (see section on adjectives), a determiner or both.

There are several types of determiner.

Article (a, the) Demonstratives (this, that) Numerals (two, three) Possesive (my, their) and Quantifiers (some, many), although there are many more examples than the ones here.

Now for an example of a noun phrase!

A big dog

The big, old, sturdy tree

As you can see from the examples above, you can have any number of pre or post modifiers in the phrase, as long as they are describing the main noun.