By Numbers, Abstract nouns

To the extent that you can hold a heart in your hand, it differs from the mind and the soul (assuming that mind does not equal brain). So you wish to talk about "heart" in the abstract. The soul seems to be an intangible concept by definition. The mind means different things to...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

Once again, I need to clarify and correct for the benefit of those readers who have been confused.Three Happiness - irregular, though, used singular but with a number that requires the pluralThis is not true; the formation is not 'irregular'; it is unacceptable and non-native. Cardinal numbers,...

Fine-- I take your point, Aperisic.For the sake of any readers who may have followed us this far, we should clarify that Eighth Happiness-- using the ordinal number-- is a totally different kettle of fish, and is not a part of our point of discussion, other than that some of those Chinese...

Starstuff wrote:"Instead, they have watched the system become deformed over the years by fear of litigation, by insurance costs, by rising competition, by billowing bureaucracy and even by improvements in technology that introduce new risks even as they reduce old ones."Why isn't it "by the fear...

deleted by an obligatory deletion transform. Will this work on the clutter in my living room? Don't we all wish!!! LOL Part of the problem, as Paco has aptly observed, is the problem of finding the missing (deleted) subject of a dependent clause, the infinitive clause "to be ... cleverer...

There are only a limited number of abstract nouns for which this pattern applies. From the examples below, you can pretty much guess the kind of noun that is needed. The "of ---ing" phrase forms an appositive to the noun in question. Among the possibilities are "habit", "custom", "tradition",...