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List 13 – Forming Abstract Nouns

There are lots of adjectives in English that we can convert into nouns by using ‘ness’. A noun ending in ‘ness’ literally means the state of the original adjective. For example, hungriness means ‘the state of being hungry.

Forming Abstract Nouns Using Suffixes In many cases, these nouns are derived by adding a suffix or alteration to the root word. Child is a concrete noun, for example, but childhood is an intangible state, so it is abstract. Nouns with the following suffixes are often abstract: -tion.

Suffixes are commonly used to show the part of speech of a word (a noun, adjective, verb, etc.). Suffixes also tell us whether the words are plural or singular. Suffixes go on the end of words. By adding -al, the verb ‘arrive’ becomes a noun.

noun. the act of a person or thing that clears; the process of becoming clear.

Generosity is the noun form of the adjective generous (which is actually recorded later).

Clearly is a common adverb that means happening in a way that is not blurred or that doesn’t leave room for doubt.

Clarity and clearness are the two abstract nouns of the verb, clear. Clearance is the noun for the meaning clearing out something.

Is beauty an abstract noun? Absolutely yes . Nouns are the naming words .

holiness

holy used as a noun: A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in .

Abstract nouns are nouns that you cannot see, smell, hear, touch, or taste.

Examples of abstract nouns include liberty, anger, freedom, love, generosity, charity, and democracy. Notice that these nouns express ideas, concepts, or qualities that cannot be seen or experienced. We cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or smell these concepts.

An abstract noun is a noun that cannot be perceived using one of the five senses (i.e., taste, touch, sight, hearing, smelling). Look at the examples below: We can’t imagine the courage it took to do that. Courage is an abstract noun because it cannot be seen, heard, tasted, touched, or smelled.

Answer. Ghost is a common noun. This is because a common noun is a noun that signifies any one of a class of living beings or inanimate objects. So Ghost is a common noun and not a proper noun.

In A, the “smell” is an abstract noun. It means a sensation that the speaker feels. In B, the “smell” is a concrete noun. It refers to the material which causes that particular smell.

As detailed above, ‘ghost’ can be a verb or a noun. Noun usage: Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Noun usage: The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose. Noun usage: I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed ghost.

You can tell if something is a concrete noun because you experience it through one of your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.