Nouns

A. **Count (countable) nouns**: nouns that can be counted: //a laugh, laughs//.

B. **Mass nouns**: nouns that cannot take plural: //laughter.//

C. **Proper nouns**: names for people and places: //America// (Chalker, 1984, p. 26).

D. **Collective nouns**: a word used to define a group of people, animals, inaminate things, or other things (//Wikipedia//, 2006a).