Abstract nouns are things that can’t be physically sensed, while concrete nouns can be physically sensed. For example, ‘comment’ is a concrete noun so you hear a verbal comment, or see a written comment. The word Hope is on the other hand, you can’t see or hear physically so one word is abstract. The ‘promise’ is usually a concrete noun because you can hear it or see it. The ‘truth’ or a ‘lie’, on the other side, is generally a concept that isn’t material or is thus abstract; however, if someone writes a statement for as ‘truth’ or ‘lie’, then that use makes the noun concrete. ‘Desire’, ‘hate’, or ‘love’ can be examples of abstract nouns but

not explicitly nouns.

When we read or hear a word as concrete, it’s something we sense. Then it’s something we can smell or see. Several problems with this definition, for example nobody would suggest that music is concrete, but we can hear it.

For a better definition of the notion of “meat” something have a little mass but don’t have some more weight than that. If light is more dense than radiation, it may cause radiation to change, but it is not a sure way of classifying things, because because a scientist would say that light has mass: he or she can prove it experimentally that it has mass and, for a given colour, can calculate accurately how much each photon weighs. An artist would say that light is abstract.

Physics have long thought of the fact that light is either a wave or a particle, depending on how they intend to predict it. How do I classify things as concrete or abstract?

When we use uncountable and countable nouns, if possible, for example for countable nouns but generally not for uncountable nouns. What are the different usage of concrete and abstract nouns? What do I get from zero? Can I only think of two things, neither related to usage, that give value to the concept of abstract nouns?

If we are teaching grammar and we want to understand why a noun is, it’s easy to explain what a concrete noun is: it’s a person, place or thing. We need abstract nouns to explain all of the other nouns, the things we cannot touch.

Second, when we wish to communicate with people from other cultures, we have to bear in mind that the meanings of concrete nouns are generally communicable, but those of abbreviated nouns vary between cultures. I had lived in Egypt for 8 years before I came across a word for debt: it’s an alien concept.

May you come up with other ways that absrtact adds value, but as far as I am concerned it is an interesting theoretical concept that is of transient practical value for people learning a language Is it more than worth her splitting hairs over definitions?

Which way to structure a sentence is countable? Multe nouns also can be countable and uncountable, so therein lies Duality. How do I do this? They perform as scentists, and are obliged to use the appropriate model for the kind of meaning that they want to convey. When looking at promise, for

example: the air was full of promise – uncountable.
He made me a promise – countable. He made me a promise.

What you want to describe is atomic? If you can cut something in two and it’s no longer the same- its nature has changed- it’s countable.

If you take a whole fish and cut it in two: Its nature changes: it is no longer a fish. No fish. No fish! Did you know that the whole fish was countable? If yes, then why don’t you count things like that? If you take part of fish meat and cut it in half, you have two smaller pieces; but the nature of fish meat is intact and not brittle. The meat of fish is about 1,000.

If you cut 1 promise and sliced it to two it is a general concept and does exist, the first promise is uncountable. You can make it atomic but you can also apply the atomicity rule to all abstract concepts. If you can cut the second promise in two, your own creations would have little value, and so the nature of the

second promise has changed: it is countable.