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Anil17 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
NOUNS - names of things
Hi there
Can someone please approve my answers, below? They are in bold.
From the following sentences write the names of eight things:
"Nature loves colour. She made nothing without it. Her skies are blue, her fields green; her waters vary with teh skies; her animals, minerals, plants, all are coloured."
My answers:
The questions in this book are not written prescriptively. I assumed we are vbeing asked to look at common and proper nouns. If so, I can name seven. I believe "colour" and "nothing" could be abstract nouns:
Can someone please approve my answers, below? They are in bold.
From the following sentences write the names of eight things:
"Nature loves colour. She made nothing without it. Her skies are blue, her fields green; her waters vary with teh skies; her animals, minerals, plants, all are coloured."
My answers:
The questions in this book are not written prescriptively. I assumed we are vbeing asked to look at common and proper nouns. If so, I can name seven. I believe "colour" and "nothing" could be abstract nouns:
- Nature
- skies
- fields
- waters
- animals
- minerals
- plants
- "nothing" or "colour"
Top answer
Hi, I wouldn't say that a 'thing' cannot be abstract. " Clive
- Hi, I wouldn't say that a 'thing' cannot be abstract.
- " Clive
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Hi,
I wouldn't say that a 'thing' cannot be abstract.
eg have you ever heard of the song called "What Is This Thing Called Love?"
Clive
I wouldn't say that a 'thing' cannot be abstract.
eg have you ever heard of the song called "What Is This Thing Called Love?"
Clive
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Hi Clive
Thanks for that, and your response on the (very difficult) adverbs question.
Can you please advise if "nothing" is a noun.
I know that "colour" can be a noun, adjective, even a verb.
Many thanks
Anil17
Thanks for that, and your response on the (very difficult) adverbs question.
Can you please advise if "nothing" is a noun.
I know that "colour" can be a noun, adjective, even a verb.
Many thanks
Anil17
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Usually a word or group of words used as a name is a noun.
The word 'nothing' is a pronoun in most cases.
I have nothing to add here.
The word 'nothing' is a pronoun in most cases.
I have nothing to add here.
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Hi,
'Nothing' is a noun. My dictionary agrees.
I'm not sure why you see it as a pronoun.
Clive
'Nothing' is a noun. My dictionary agrees.
I'm not sure why you see it as a pronoun.
Clive
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Clive
I have nothing more to tell you.
There is nothing in my refrigerator. [ I mean I ate all the cheesse, butter, beef, etc. and I forgot to buy some today.]
In the above the word 'nothing' is a pronoun.
Am I wrong, Clive?
I have nothing more to tell you.
There is nothing in my refrigerator. [ I mean I ate all the cheesse, butter, beef, etc. and I forgot to buy some today.]
In the above the word 'nothing' is a pronoun.
Am I wrong, Clive?
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Hi,
Yes, 'nothing' is a noun.
You can't really say it represents 'no cheese, no cars, no stars, no bananas, etc.'
Can you find a dictionary entry that refers to it as a pronoun?
Clive
Yes, 'nothing' is a noun.
You can't really say it represents 'no cheese, no cars, no stars, no bananas, etc.'
Can you find a dictionary entry that refers to it as a pronoun?
Clive
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I see it this way:
1. Something = some thing => it is noun (because "thing" is a noun).
2. Same goes to "nothing".
Another viewpoint:
A pro-nount is something that refers to a noun that has previously been mentioned in the text (except sentences like "it is raining"):
«I like my car (mentioned here), it (reference) looks so good.»
1. Something = some thing => it is noun (because "thing" is a noun).
2. Same goes to "nothing".
Another viewpoint:
A pro-nount is something that refers to a noun that has previously been mentioned in the text (except sentences like "it is raining"):
«I like my car (mentioned here), it (reference) looks so good.»
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Hi,
It is interesting enough that the three dictionaries that I looked at all declare the word nothing as a pronoun with a similar sentence:
There is nothing in this box = There isn't anything in this box. BTW, anything is a pronoun also according to The American Heritage, The Cambridge, and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Language.
Incidentally,
It is interesting enough that the three dictionaries that I looked at all declare the word nothing as a pronoun with a similar sentence:
There is nothing in this box = There isn't anything in this box. BTW, anything is a pronoun also according to The American Heritage, The Cambridge, and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Language.
Incidentally,
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