Singular noun

A singular noun is a noun that has singular grammatical number.

English distinguishes between two types of singular noun. Mass nouns are singular, but cannot be counted, and cannot take a singular indefinite article. Singular count nouns take an indefinite article in the absence of another determiner.

Examples of common English singular nouns include:

apple, baby, backpack, ball, banana, basket, bed, bird, book, bottle, box, bread, bridge, brush, cake, cat, chair, child, clock, cloud, coat, computer, cup, dog, door, egg, elephant, envelope, eye, fish, flower, fork, friend, garden, girl, glass, glove, hat, house, key, lemon, library, man, mask, meat, mirror, mouse, necklace, notebook, orange, owl, paper, pencil, pen, phone, pie, pig, plant, plate, queen, rabbit, rainbow, restaurant, ring, road, school, scissors, shoe, shirt, sky, spoon, table, teacher, teddy bear, tiger, tree, umbrella, vase, wall, watch, window, woman, zebra.

Contrast plural noun.