A noun is a word that names a particular thing or a set of things. Nouns are classified in many ways, but for clarity purposes, it can be said that the two more general forms of the noun are the proper noun (which refers to unique entities, like Europe or John) and the common noun (which refers to a class of entities, like neighborhood or country).
When a word ends in “ic,” “sion” or “tion,” the stress is usually on the second-to-last syllable. You count syllables backwards and put a stress on the second one from the end.
