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).

These are also called uncountable nouns or noncount nouns. The phrases “water,” “rice,” and “literature” at first seem like they should be plural. If we said “bowls of carrots” or “different types of ...