Hello, Can somebody tell me if "waiting", "while" and "smell" are abstract nouns? Getting myself confused. How about "air" - you can't touch it right? So not a concrete noun? MANY THANKS Charlotte

hi,what is use an abstract noun in a sentence Please tell me an abstract noun. Then I can help you to use it in a sentence. Hi Clive I haven't read all the posts in this thread and thus I don't really know what this is all about.

Mr. Miclawer, I wasn’t going to expand this pluralization discussion on “ creams” and “wines”. But it really bothered the heck out of me for two reasons. 1) I really wanted to find out if I was really blowing hot air on this subject because of my

Generic? That's an interesting choice of word for a word. I've always used it for drugs. In the field of grammar, abstract nouns (such as beauty, democracy, love -some of these are countable as well) are categorized under

Hi, Here some extracts from conversation (about baseball) I'd like you to help me understand: "...And now that Roger Clemens, who is to pitching in this era what Bonds has been to hitting ." - could you explain in terms of grammar why gerund

CB, I hate to disagree, because your comments are always so very helpful and appropriate, and you are such a valuable resource on the forum. Nevertheless, I don't think any poetic license whatever is involved here. I believe the

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

Schetin «A grammar is only a view of language. No matter what terminology, if it helps avoid mistakes and explain phenomena, then the grammar is good.» Very true. Also I'd say this: Rules describe the language, not define it. Rules

All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun . It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written.

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. this is my first post here, I like to know these words kilometer centimeter Are those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ? My usual approach