What's the difference between following?
She's beautiful.
She's a beauty.
He'll be successful.
He'll be a success.
While beauty and success are abstract nouns meaning, the state of being beautiful or successful.
I wonder why people use those in such a manner.
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seraph42 Beauty and success are abstract nouns meaning the state of being beautiful or successful. Yes, but those aren't the only meanings. " a beauty" and " a success" makes them countable, and then they mean "a beautiful person or thing" and "a successful person or thing".
- seraph42 Beauty and success are abstract nouns meaning the state of being beautiful or successful.
- Yes, but those aren't the only meanings.
- " a beauty" and " a success" makes them countable, and then they mean "a beautiful person or thing" and "a successful person or thing".
- seraph42 I wonder why people use those in such a manner.
- I suppose it's just because they can.
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seraph42Beauty and success are abstract nouns meaning the state of being beautiful or successful.
Yes, but those aren't the only meanings. "a beauty" and "a success" makes them countable, and then they mean "a beautiful person or thing" and "a successful person or thing".
seraph42I wonder why people use those in su
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