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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
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over-simplified, entities in the real world
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 nouns themselves, whereas, in reality, it is a property of the entities in the real world that the nouns refer to.
From the dictionary :
entity
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=A&key=entity*1+0&ph=on
noun [C]
something that exists apart from other things, having its own independent existence
Although the two buildings are in separate locations, the museum they are part of is a single entity.
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But still I cannot understand the violet-coloured highlighed parts. Could you explain that?
From the dictionary :
entity
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=A&key=entity*1+0&ph=on
noun [C]
something that exists apart from other things, having its own independent existence
Although the two buildings are in separate locations, the museum they are part of is a single entity.
(from )
But still I cannot understand the violet-coloured highlighed parts. Could you explain that?
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It can be difficult to be precise about which are abstract and which are concrete nouns. It can be tempting to look for patterns and rules in the words to try to decide whether something is abstract or concrete. This is a mistake: it is the things in the world which the words refer to which have abstract or concrete properties (aspects).
- It can be difficult to be precise about which are abstract and which are concrete nouns.
- It can be tempting to look for patterns and rules in the words to try to decide whether something is abstract or concrete.
- This is a mistake: it is the things in the world which the words refer to which have abstract or concrete properties (aspects).
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It can be difficult to be precise about which are abstract and which are concrete nouns. It can be tempting to look for patterns and rules in the words to try to decide whether something is abstract or concrete. This is a mistake: it is the things in the world which the words refer to which have abstract or concrete properties (aspects).
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