Classification of Nouns: Concrete Noun

Concrete Noun
is a noun which names anything (or anyone) that you can feel through your physical senses: touch, sight, taste, hearing, or smell.

The word concrete itself means a stone or an object made out of cement:

something that can be felt by your body. Literary, concrete nouns are that names all objects that can be felt by the body.

Examples are:

paper
bag
pencil
cup
eyeglass

*Take note that most nouns cross classifications. In this case, based on our examples a paper can be both concrete and common noun, the same goes for the others as well. Just remember that studying classification of nouns should be done by contrasting pairs.

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Kinds of Pronouns: Reflexive & Intensive Pronouns

are pronouns having the same form but different in usage. Reflexive pronouns acts as 'direct object' of the verb or 'object of the preposition' in a sentence if the receiver of the action is the subject itself. It merely reflects the subject . Intensive pronoun emphasizes the subject . It requires to be beside an antecedent or the noun it intensifies. In short, it intensifies the subject of the sentence. Let us study this chart to see the difference between the two.

Cases of Nouns: Possessive (Genitive) Case

Possessive (Genitive) i s a word of, relating to, or constituting a word, a word group, or a grammatical case that denotes ownership or a relation analogous or similar to ownership. Possession is simply the state of having or owning something. A noun is in possessive case if it shows ownership or possession . Nouns or pronouns in possessive case are usually guided by the noun that follows it. Possessive case are marked with an apostrophe and 's' at the end of the word or with the 'of' phrase. Observe this chart contrasting the apostrophe and 's' and the the 'of' phrase:

Cases of Nouns: Objective (Accusative) Case

Objective (Accusative) is the category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb. When we say object, objective case or object of the preposition we are not talking about something tangible or the literal object or thing . We refer to them as one that receives the action . In short, words that receives the action are in objective case . We can call it the recipient . Observe this chart for the position and characteristics of words or group of words in objective case.

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