An abstract noun is a noun which names anything which you can not perceive through your five physical senses, and is the opposite of a concrete noun. Tillie is amused by people who are nostalgic about childhood . Justice often seems to slip out of our grasp. Some scientists believe that schizophrenia is transmitted genetically. You can make a countable noun can be made plural and attach it to a plural verb in a sentence.
Countable nouns are the opposite of non-countable nouns and collective nouns.
Since he inherited his aunt's library , Jerome spends every weekend indexing his books . Miriam found six silver dollars in the toe of a sock . The oak tree lost three branches in the hurricane . Over the course of twenty-seven years , Martha Ballad delivered just over eight hundred babies . A non-countable noun always takes a singular verb in a sentence.