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-====== NOUN ======
-A noun (from Latin nōmen, literally name) is a word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas. However, noun is not a semantic category, so it cannot be characterized in terms of its meaning. Thus, actions and states of existence can also be expressed by verbs, qualities by adjectives, and places by adverbs. Linguistically, a noun is a member of a large, open part of speech whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.
-===== Classification =====
-==== Proper and common nouns ====
-Main article: Proper and common nouns
-A proper noun or proper name is a noun representing unique entities (such as India, Pegasus, Jupiter, Confucius, or Pequod), as distinguished from common nouns, which describe a class of entities (such as country, animal, planet, person or ship).
-  *  ANIMALS
-    *  AQUATIC ANIMALS
-    *  TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS
-  *  BIRDS
-  *  REPTILES
-==== Countable nouns and mass nouns ====
-Main articles: Count noun and Mass noun
-Count nouns or countable nouns are common nouns that can take a plural, can combine with numerals or counting quantifiers (e.g., one, two, several, every, most), and can take an indefinite article such as a or an (in languages which have such articles). Examples of count nouns are chair, nose, and occasion.
-    * COUNTABLE NOUNS
-      * FURNITURES
-      * BEVERAGES
-      * CLOTHES
-      * ROOM
-      * BODY PARTS
-Mass nouns or uncountable (or non-count) nouns differ from count nouns in precisely that respect: they cannot take plurals or combine with number words or the above type of quantifiers. For example, it is not possible to refer to a furniture or three furnitures. This is true even though the pieces of furniture comprising furniture could be counted. Thus the distinction between mass and count nouns should not be made in terms of what sorts of things the nouns refer to, but rather in terms of how the nouns present these entities.
-Many nouns have both countable and uncountable uses; for example, soda is countable in "give me three sodas", but uncountable in "he likes soda".
-    *  UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
-      * WATER
-      * FIRE
-      * AIR
-      * SAND
-      * TREE
-==== Collective nouns ====
-Main article: Collective noun
-Collective nouns are nouns that – even when they are inflected for the singular – refer to groups consisting of more than one individual or entity. Examples include committee, government, and police. In English these nouns may be followed by a singular or a plural verb and referred to by a singular or plural pronoun, the singular being generally preferred when referring to the body as a unit and the plural often being preferred, especially in British English, when emphasizing the individual members. Examples of acceptable and unacceptable use given by Gowers in Plain Words include:
-"A committee was appointed to consider this subject." (singular)
-"The committee were unable to agree." (plural)
-* "The committee were of one mind when I sat in on them." (unacceptable use of plural)
-==== Concrete nouns and abstract nouns ====
-Further information: Physical body and Abstract object
-Concrete nouns refer to physical entities that can, in principle at least (i.e. different schools of philosophy and sciences may question the assumption, but, for the most part, people agree to the existence of something. E.g. a rock, a tree, universe), be observed by at least one of the senses (for instance, chair, apple, Janet or atom). Abstract nouns, on the other hand, refer to abstract objects; that is, ideas or concepts (such as justice or hatred). While this distinction is sometimes exclusive, some nouns have multiple senses, including both concrete and abstract ones: for example, the noun art, which usually refers to a concept (e.g., Art is an important element of human culture.) but which can refer to a specific artwork in certain contexts (e.g., I put my daughter's art up on the fridge.)
-Some abstract nouns developed etymologically by figurative extension from literal roots. These include drawback, fraction, holdout and uptake. Similarly, some nouns have both abstract and concrete senses, with the latter having developed by figurative extension from the former. These include view, filter, structure and key.
-In English, many abstract nouns are formed by adding a suffix (-ness, -ity, -ion) to adjectives or verbs. Examples are happiness (from the adjective happy), circulation (from the verb circulate) and serenity (from the adjective serene).
-==== Alienable vs. inalienable nouns ====
-Main article: Inalienable possession
-Some languages, such as the Awa language spoken in Papua New Guinea, refer to nouns differently, depending on how ownership is being given for the given noun. This can be broken into two categories: alienable possession and inalienable possession. An alienably possessed noun is something that can exist independent of a possessor:
- for example 'tree' can be possessed ('Lucy's tree') but need not be ('the tree'), and likewise for 'shirt' ('Mike's shirt', 'that shirt') and 'roads' ('London's roads', 'those roads') .
-Inalienablly possessed nouns, on the other hand, refer to something that does not exist independently of a possessor; this includes kin terms such as 'father', body-part nouns such as 'shadow' or 'hair', and part-whole nouns such as 'top' and 'bottom'.
-===== GRAMMATICAL AGENT =====
-In linguistics, a grammatical agent is the thematic relation of the cause or initiator to an event. The agent is a semantic concept distinct from the subject of a sentence as well as from the topic. While the subject is determined syntactically, primarily through word order, the agent is determined through its relationship to the action expressed by the verb. For example, in the sentence "The little girl was bitten by the dog", girl is the subject, but dog is the agent.
-The word agent comes from the present participle agens, agentis ('the one doing') of the Latin verb agere, to 'do' or 'make'.
-The grammatical agent is often confused with the subject, but the two notions are quite distinct: the agent is based explicitly on its relationship to the action or event expressed by the verb (e.g. "He who kicked the ball"), whereas the subject is based on a more formal title using the theory of the information flow (e.g. "Jack kicked the ball"). In the sentence "The boy kicked the ball", the boy is the agent and the subject. However, when the sentence is rendered in the passive voice, "The ball was kicked by the boy", the ball is the grammatical subject, but the boy is still the agent. Many sentences in English and other Indo-European languages have the agent as subject.
-===== AGENT NOUNS =====
-In linguistics, an agent noun (in Latin, nomen agentis) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action. For example, driver is an agent noun formed from the verb drive.
-  - Types of agents
-    - Karta karak.(कर्ता/subject causative agent) - Nominative/subjective Case
-    - Karm karak (objective cause / ) - Instrument Case
-    - Karan karak (करण कारक) - Ablative Case
-    - Sampradan karak (संप्रदान कारक) - dative Case
-    - Apadan Karak (अपादान कारक) - Objective Case
-    - Sabandh karak (relational cause) - possesssive Case
-    - Adhikaran karak (locative cause) - Locative Case
-        * innesive/अंतस्थ
-        * subessive/नीचात
-        * superessive/उपरिष्ठात
-        * adessive/अधिस्थ
-        * adessive/समीपस्थ
-    - Sambodhan karak (संबोधन कारक) - Vocative Case
-  - कारक की बढ़ी हुई पुर्जा
-     * Person who has been harmed
-     * जिसको लाभ हुया हो
-     * जिसके बारे में वर्णन किया जा रहा हो
-     * जो वस्तु इसका स्त्रोत हो
-^	Kaarak (कारक)	^	Mantrakshar	^	Signs (चिह्न)	^	Meaning (अर्थ)	^
-|Karta (कर्ता)	|		|ने (Ne)	|	Doer of the action	|
-|Karm (कर्म )	|		|को (ko)	|	Patient on which the effect of agent occurs	|
-|Karan (करण)	|		|से (Se)	|	Medium of the agent through which it acts	|
-|Sampradan (सम्प्रदान)	|	|	को,केलिए (ko, ke liye)	|	Agent acts for that purpose 	|
-|Apadan (अपादान)	|		|	से {अलगहोना} (se)	|	Separation from agent	|
-|Sanbandh (सम्बन्ध)	|		|	का,की,के,रा,री,रे (ka, ki, ke, ra,ri, re)	|	अन्य पदों से सम्बन्ध (anya pado se sambandh)	|
-|Adhikaran (अधिकरण)	|		|	में,पर (me, par)	|	The base of action	|
-|Sambodhan (संबोधन)	|		|	हे !,अरे ! (he! Are!)	|	To call someone's name	|
-===== TYPES OF AGENT =====
-==== ACTIVE AGENT ====
-==== PASSIVE AGENT ====
-  * the person who has been harmed
-  * the person who has been sick
-  * the person watching

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