Concrete nouns vs. abstract nouns
Concrete nouns are nouns that represent things that we can experience with at least one of our five senses. Abstract nouns, on the other hand, represent things that we cannot feel with our senses.
Examples of concrete nouns:
- Dog
- Laura
- Wind
- Blizzard
- Magazine
- Website
Examples of abstract nouns:
- Love
- Pride
- Emptiness
- Friendliness
- Stress
- Insistence
See also:
Advanced grammar:
- Articles (a/an, the, zero article)
- Pronouns: subject, object and possessive
- Question tags
- English conditionals
- Interrogatives in English
- Determiners
- Phrasal verbs
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Reported and direct speech
- Numbers: cardinal, ordinal, and Roman numbers
- The verb: “get”
- ‘Get’ vs. ‘go’ and ‘got’ vs. ‘gotten’
- Copular verbs
- Cleft sentences
- Subjunctive in English
- Vulgar and taboo in English
- Ellipsis
- Split infinitive
- Emphasis with inversion
- Gerunds in English
- To + infinitive
- Bare infinitive
- British and American spelling