Question

Point out the nouns in the following sentences and say whether they are Common, Proper, Collective or Abstract.
This room is thirty feet in length.
a. room - Common, feet - Proper
b. room - Proper, length - Common
c. room - Common, feet - Common, length - Abstract
d. room - Common, feet - Common, length - Common

Answer 1

Hint: Common nouns are nouns we use for common things such as rat, cat, garden, bees, etc. Proper nouns are names of things such as Taj Mahal, Motorola, etc. Collective nouns are nouns given to a collective group of things such as a pack of cigarettes, a bunch of grapes, etc. Abstract nouns are nouns which are abstract or intangible in nature such as justice, bravery, etc.

Complete answer:
First let us identify the nouns in the given sentence. The nouns are room, feet and length. Therefore, we can eliminate options a and b since the answer should have the noun length in it as well. Now we have to identify what kind of noun each is. Room is a common noun because you can have many rooms in a house. Feet is a common noun as well. However length of anything is intangible and therefore, an abstract noun. Thus, option c is the correct answer.
Option a is wrong because it does not include length as a noun. Feet is not a proper noun.
Option b is incorrect as well because a room is not a proper noun since there can be many rooms.
Option d is wrong because length of anything cannot be touched and therefore, it is an abstract noun and not a common noun.

Note: We can narrow our options down by elimination and then choosing the correct answer by analysing between the narrowed down options. Eliminating options helps us to have less choices.