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Soheil1 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Mass nouns vs. abstract nouns

Hello.
What is the difference between mass and abstract nouns?

examples of mass nouns:advice, bread, knowledge, luck, spaghetti, and work
examples of abstract nouns:courage or freedom

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They are different classification systems for nouns. ) abstract nouns are uncountable, that is all. examples of mass nouns: bread, spaghetti, work examples of abstract nouns: advice , courage , freedom, knowledge, luck Wikipedia's simple definition for the different systems: A mass noun or uncountable noun is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete subsets.

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  • They are different classification systems for nouns.
  • ) abstract nouns are uncountable, that is all.
  • examples of mass nouns: bread, spaghetti, work examples of abstract nouns: advice , courage , freedom, knowledge, luck Wikipedia's simple definition for the different systems: A mass noun or uncountable noun is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete subsets.
  • Non-count nouns are distinguished from count nouns.
  • Concrete nouns refer to physical entities that can be observed by at least one of the senses (for instance, chair, apple, Janet or atom).
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They are different classification systems for nouns. It so happens that most (all?) abstract nouns are uncountable, that is all.

examples of mass nouns: bread, spaghetti, work
examples of abstract nouns: advice, courage, freedom, knowledge, luck

Wikipedia's simple definition for the different systems:

A mass
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