Important Announcement
17 March, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is proud to provide virtual options for new and existing students to continue their English learning without disruption as we follow recommendations from health experts to practice social distancing to combat the spread of COVID-19. Utilizing Readmore... updated and innovative online teaching methods, ELC invites English language learners from around the world to join us for our online classes, which continue to be taught by our most experienced and veteran teachers. In addition to our online courses, our School Directors will be available in person, to provide drop-in hours and any additional support that may be needed for local students.
If you have any questions about ELC, current courses, or are a new student looking for options to enhance your English skills while typical daily activities are disrupted, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Special offers are currently available for new students!
The health and safety of our students, staff, and host families are our first priority and we look forward to moving our community online temporarily while prevention and mitigation of COVID-19 takes place.
Important Announcement
17 March, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is proud to provide virtual options for new and existing students to continue their English learning without disruption as we follow recommendations from health experts to practice social distancing to combat the spread of COVID-19. Utilizing updated and innovative online teaching methods, ELC invites English language learners from around the world to join us for our online classes, which continue to be taught by our most experienced and veteran teachers. In addition to our online courses, our School Directors will be available in person, to provide drop-in hours and any additional support that may be needed for local students.
If you have any questions about ELC, current courses, or are a new student looking for options to enhance your English skills while typical daily activities are disrupted, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Special offers are currently available for new students!
The health and safety of our students, staff, and host families are our first priority and we look forward to moving our community online temporarily while prevention and mitigation of COVID-19 takes place.
Nouns can be categorized into many groups. Below we tackle three common noun groups: concrete, abstract and collective.
People, places and things are all concrete nouns. They’re things you can see or touch such as animals, buildings, cities and countries.
These are concepts, feelings, ideas, states of mind, and attributes such as respect, pride, loyalty, drive and freedom. If you have an abstract word and you want to test whether it’s a noun, see if you can replace the word with one that is more recognizable to you as a noun – a concrete noun. For example:
To figure out whether drive is a noun, try replacing it with a concrete noun:
You can. You can replace drive with the concrete noun homework, so it’s a good bet that drive is an abstract noun. Try it with this sentence:
Is pride a noun? Yes, because you can replace it with other concrete nouns:
Collective nouns are a type of concrete noun. These are words that describe a group of things, usually people:
In American English, we tend to treat collective nouns as singular, so although there are multiple people in a band or on a team, we treat them as one thing:
