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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 calling him a "sale engineer" if he had only one client,...

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 engineer" if he had only one client, but you would be...

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, my mother gives me hers. I don't like their two advice...

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 made to seem that it is a property of the...

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 return to the earlier question, "evidences" might be used...

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?Only be aware that you are creating one of several...

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 phrase? A beauty of the Princess of Bigman's land The...

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, for example: good, bad, blue, healthy, warm, cold......

What is the difference between "abstract noun" and "adjective" and which should be used when.

Florazheng, "Pitch" is a common noun alright (as opposed to proper noun), but is also among abstract nouns - those things that don't have sizes, shapes or colors, something you can't physically touch and see. When someone broadens his pitch, he is trying to make his case appealing to a broader...