Underived abstract nouns - Noun-Parts Of Speech-ESL/Learn English Grammar

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12. Some abstract nouns were not derived from any other part of
speech, but were framed directly for the expression of certain ideas
or phenomena. Such are
_beauty_,
_joy_,
_hope_,
_ease_,
_energy_;
_day_,
_night_,
_summer_,
_winter_;
_shadow_,
_lightning_,
_thunder_,etc.

The adjectives or verbs corresponding to these are either themselves
derived from the nouns or are totally different words; as
_glad_--_joy_,
_hopeful_--_hope_, etc.



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