Question

Analyse the following sentence and say to what classification the nouns belong:
This room is thirty feet in length.
A) Length - common noun
B) Length - collective noun
C) Length - abstract noun
D) Length - proper noun

Answer 1

Hint: A noun could be a word that names something like an individual, place, thing, or idea. Nouns in an exceedingly sentence play the role of subject, the object of the verb, indirect object, subject complement, object complement, appositive, or adjective.

Complete answer:
There are eight kinds of nouns and they are proper nouns, common nouns, abstract nouns, concrete nouns, countable and uncountable nouns, collective nouns and compound nouns.
Option A) Length – common noun: common noun is a name for something which is common for several things, person or place. For example: Country (can refer to any country) and City (can refer to any city like Mumbai or Delhi). Length is not considered as the common noun. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) Length – collective noun: Collective noun is a word for a group of things, people or animals. Collective nouns can be both plural or singular. Examples of collective nouns are family, team, cattle and etc. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer because length is not considered a collective noun.
Option C) Length – abstract noun: An abstract noun is a noun that refers to an intangible concept such as an emotion, a feeling, a quality, or an idea. An abstract noun, in other words, does not refer to a physical entity. Therefore, length is considered as an abstract noun and this is the correct answer.
Option D) Length – proper noun: The name given to anything to make it more precise is called a proper noun. For example Sophia, India, Ollie, New York, Monday. No matter where they appear in a sentence, proper nouns are written in capital letters. Therefore, length is not considered as the proper noun and this is an incorrect answer.

This room is thirty feet in length – Length – abstract noun. Thus the correct answer is option C.

Note:An abstract noun is a word that describes something that can't touch, see, hear, smell, or taste. The meaning of length is extent or distance or period or duration. Length is an abstract noun as it represents a theory and an intangible thing. So, Option C is the most appropriate answer as compared to any other option.