And I love sleeping in my bed. Bed! That’s also a common noun! (yawns) There are two types of nouns - common nouns and proper nouns. Common nouns are the names of things (places or objects).

And obviously this sounds much better. Knowing the different types of words, like verbs and adverbs, nouns, adjectives and connectives, can improve your writing.

Sometimes a noun looks like it should be plural when it isn’t. Chances are that this noun is called a mass noun. Mass nouns are nouns that, by their very nature, are plural. These are also called ...