partridge
pupil
bee
soldier
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book
sailor
child
sheep
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ship
ruffian
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VI. Using a dictionary, tell from what word each of these abstract nouns is derived:
sight
speech
motion
pleasure
patience
friendship
deceit
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bravery
height
width
wisdom
regularity
advice
seizure
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honesty
judgment
belief
occupation
justice
nobility
relief
death
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raid
service
trail
feeling
choice
simplicity
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SPECIAL USES OF NOUNS
1. Proper nouns are used as common in either of two ways:
(1) The origin of a thing is used for the thing itself: as china, from China.
(2) The name of a person or place noted for certain qualities is transferred to any person or place possessing those qualities; Hercules and Samson were noted for their strength, and we call a very strong man a Hercules or a Samson.
2. Material nouns may be used as class names. Instead of considering the whole body of material of which certain uses are made, one can speak of particular uses or phases of the substance; as
(1) Of individual objects made from metals or other substances capable of being wrought into various shapes. "The sailor was put in irons" meaning chains of iron.
(2) Of classes or kinds of the same substance. These are the same in material, but differ in strength, purity, etc. Hence it shortens speech to make the nouns plural, and say teas, tobaccos, paints, oils, candies, clays, coals
(3) By poetical use, of certain words necessarily singular in idea, which are made plural, or used as class nouns, as in the following:-The lone and level sands stretch far away.
(4) Of detached portions of matter used as class names; as stones, slates, papers, tins, clouds, mists, etc.
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