3. Abstract nouns are frequently used as proper names by being personified; that is, the ideas are spoken of as residing in living beings. This is a poetic usage, though not confined to verse. Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. -Byron.
4. Abstract nouns are made half abstract by being spoken of in the plural.
They are not then pure abstract nouns, nor are they common class nouns. For example, examine this:- The arts differ from the sciences in this, that their power is founded not merely on facts which can be communicated, but on dispositions which require to be created. -Ruskin.
5. Nouns used as descriptive terms. Sometimes a noun is attached to another noun to add to its meaning, or describe it; for example, "a family quarrel," "a New York bank," "the State Bank Tax bill," "a morning walk."
6. Words or word groups used as nouns.
(1) Other parts of speech used as nouns:- The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow. -Burns.
Every why hath a wherefore -Shakespeare.
(2) Certain word groups used like single nouns:- Then comes the "Why, sir!" and the "What then, sir?" and the "No, sir!" and the "You don't see your way through the question, sir!" -Macaulay
(3) Any part of speech may be considered merely as a word, without reference to its function in the sentence; also titles of books are treated as simple nouns: The it, at the beginning, is ambiguous, whether it mean the sun or the cold. -Dr BLAIR
VII. Pick out the nouns in the following sentences, and tell to which class each belongs. Notice if any have shifted from one class to another.
1. Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
2. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
3. Stone walls do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage.
4. Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named.
5. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
6. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
7. The fleet, shattered and disabled, returned to Spain.
8. One To-day is worth two To-morrows.
9. Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
10. The hours glide by; the silver moon is gone.
11. Her robes of silk and velvet came from over the sea.
12. My soldier cousin was once only a drummer boy.
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