Question

Point out the noun/nouns in the following sentence, and say whether they are Common, Proper, Collective or Abstract:
I recognized your voice at once.
A) Voice – Common, once – Common
B) Voice – Proper, once – Abstract
C) Voice – Common
D) Once – Abstract

Answer 1

Hint: A noun is a term that refers to a particular entity or group of things, such as living beings, locations, behaviors, attributes, states of life, or ideas. However, since a noun is not a semantic category, it cannot be categorized according to its meaning. Verbs can express actions and states of being, adjectives can express attributes, and adverbs can express locations.

Complete answer:
Types of noun:
a) Common noun – A common noun is a name for something that applies to a large number of objects, people, or locations. It refers to a specific type of object, person, or location.
Nation (it can be any country, it doesn't have to be a specific one), city (it can be any city, it doesn't have to be a specific one (it can refer to any city like Melbourne, Mumbai, Toronto, etc. but nothing in particular). A common noun is a word that refers to a person, location, object, or other entity. A proper noun is a particular one of those in general.

b) Proper noun – A proper noun is a name that refers to only one person, place, or thing and does not have a common name. A proper noun in written English often starts with capital letters. Steve, for example, is from Melbourne (which is a single city) (refers to a particular person), Australia is a country that has a (there is no other country named Australia; this name is fixed for only one country).

c) Abstract noun – A term for something that cannot be seen but is present is an abstract noun. It doesn't work in the real world. It usually refers to principles, attributes, and circumstances.
Truth, lies, happiness, sorrow, time, fellowship, laughter, patriotism, and so on are some examples.

d) Collective noun – A collective noun is a term that refers to a group of objects, persons, animals, or other creatures. Family, team, jury, cattle, and so on. Collective nouns may be singular or plural. Americans, on the other hand, tend to use collective nouns as singular, but both usages are permissible in other parts of the world.

Let us analyze the given options:
Option A. Voice – Common, once – Common: From the above explanation of the common noun, A common noun is a name for something that applies to a large number of objects, people, or locations. It refers to a specific type of object, person, or location. So , ‘once’ can’t be a common noun. this option could not be correct. Hence option A. Voice – Common, once – Common is incorrect.

Option B. Voice – Proper, once – Abstract: From the above explanation of Proper and Abstract nouns, We already know Voice is a common noun, this option could not be correct. Hence option B. Voice – Proper, once – Abstract is incorrect.

Option C. Voice – Common : A common noun is the name given to all persons or objects of the same class or kind. Voice is a common noun since it is a noun that is used to describe a thing in general.
So, this option could be correct. Hence option C. Voice – Common is correct. So, in this sentence “I recognized your voice at once”, Voice is a common noun.

Option D. Once – Abstract : From the above explanation of Abstract nouns, A term for something that cannot be seen but is present is an abstract noun. It doesn't work in the real world. It usually refers to principles, attributes, and circumstances. So,’Once’ can’t be Abstract noun.this option could not be correct.Hence option D. Once – Abstract is incorrect.

Hence, Option C. Voice – Common is the correct answer.

Note: The syntactic rules for nouns vary depending on the language. In English, nouns are words that can be used as the head of a noun phrase and can be used with articles and attributive adjectives. "Every language, as far as we know, makes a grammatical distinction that looks like a noun-verb distinction."