Hi, If you say 'It is good', we need to know what you are talking about. eg a good man eg a good dinner eg a good book The noun tells us what you are describing. Clive

good is adjective but why person is added to good

Grammar Geek wrote: Sales is used for the abstract noun meaning "relating to selling." Even if the person is responsible only for one product or one customers, the title is still sales engineer. You could, I suppose, tease a co-worker by

Sales is used for the abstract noun meaning "relating to selling." Even if the person is responsible only for one product or one customers, the title is still sales engineer. You could, I suppose, tease a co-worker by calling him a "sale

Hoa Thai wrote: First, thank you for your reply. Now if you can help me a bit further, I would appreciate very much. If advice is an uncountable abstract noun, then advices must be wrong, right? ( Yesterday, my father gave me his advice. Today,

Welcome to English Forums! Don't feel that you're alone in having this difficulty. The difference between abstract and concrete nouns is not always easy to determine. The reason is that the distinction is over-simplified, and that it is

MrPedantic wrote: Yes, both are fine; you might want to make it absolutely clear that a person had not simply edited a book, for instance. MrPedantic, what is the difference between someone editing a book and writing a book? To

There is a difference between a clause (the term you used previously) and a phrase ('of the Princess of Bigman's land'). anything we should be aware of when we decide to take that road of turning uncountable nouns into sort of countable nouns?

Thank you, Mr. M. It helped me a lot. Would you say the underlined part is a restrictive phrase or a modifying phrase . If it is either one, then would you kindly tell me what is the difference between a modifying phrase and a restrictive

An abstract noun is a noun that describes something you cannot touch (not a thing, not a person), for example: love, anger, education, relationship... It's a noun, meaning it can take an article and an adjective. An adjective qualifies a noun,