Question

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what is the abstract nouns capable,mock, bore, defy and prosper. i give medals!!!!

Answer 1

I'll tell you how to sort nouns from verbs, and you can give it a try.

To find out if a word is a verb, simply try it out with a few pronouns: I _____, you _____, he (or she) _____. Can you put the word in question in that slot and have it make sense?

To find out if a word is a concrete noun, you can generally put the word "the" in front of it. This doesn't work well for abstract nouns, unfortunately. But you can follow them with a verb and have the beginning of a sentence. You can say, "I like _____," putting that word in the direct object slot, and have something that makes sense. You can even sometimes, with odd constructions, use the "the."

An example.

Take the word "liberty." Can you say, I liberty, you liberty, he liberties? Not really, so that word is not a verb.

On the other hand, can you say "liberty is . . ." and begin to have a sentence? Yes. Can you say, "I like liberty" or "I appreciate liberty" or even "I appreciate my liberty"? Yes. You can also say (though this is a less usual construction) "the liberty I know . . ." or "the liberty we experience . . . " and there's that "the" preceding the word.

So "liberty" is a noun. Since it's not the sort of thing you can see or hear or touch, it is an abstract noun.

If you're looking for abstract nouns in the list you present, though, you'll be looking a long time. Is this the complete list?