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Gray walk 979 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Noun

Is 'dinner' an abstract noun or a concrete noun?
  

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In the sense of food on plates on a table, it is concrete because you can observe it as three-dimensional physical objects. In the sense of a meal time, it is abstract because it simply a time, which is not a physical object. Dinner is on the table.

  • In the sense of food on plates on a table, it is concrete because you can observe it as three-dimensional physical objects.
  • In the sense of a meal time, it is abstract because it simply a time, which is not a physical object.
  • Dinner is on the table.
  • (concrete) Let's go to the movies after dinner.
  • (abstract) CJ
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In the sense of food on plates on a table, it is concrete because you can observe it as three-dimensional physical objects.

In the sense of a meal time, it is abstract because it simply a time, which is not a physical object.

Dinner is on the table. (concrete)
Let's go to the movies after dinner. (abstract)

CJ

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