1 An example of a countable noun is 'table', and an example of an uncountable noun is 'money'. 2  In 'safety barrier', the noun 'safety' is being used as a modifier. 3  In this dictionary the word 'noun' is represented by the letter n.  Examples of proper nouns in English are Joseph, Vienna and the White House.
Funeral train. Abraham Lincoln's funeral train. A funeral train is a train specially chartered in order to carry a coffin or coffins to a place of interment. Funeral trains today are often reserved for leaders and national heroes, as part of a state funeral, but in the past were sometimes the chief means of transporting coffins and mourners to graveyards.
And even today, as I recently discovered, to follow the route of Lincolnâs train is to discover how much his spirit still pervades the nation he loved and saved. In the 1860sâwhen the nationâs rail system was a tangle of small local linesâtransporting the funeral car halfway across the continent was a technical feat.