Concrete nouns are nouns that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled; in other words, perceived by the five senses. We at Penlighten explain this type of noun with a list of concrete nouns and their examples.
A Little Noun-sense!
Nouns can be divided into various types such as common, proper, countable, uncountable, collective, possessive, singular, plural, compound, abstract, and concrete nouns.
A noun is the naming word for a person, place, or a thing. It is a figure of speech, which can be mainly divided into concrete nouns and abstract nouns. Concrete nouns can be perceived by the five senses, i.e., sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. These are the objects that exist physically. For example, a ball can be seen, as well as touched. Therefore, it is a concrete noun. Concrete nouns can be common, proper, countable, uncountable, or collective.
An abstract noun, on the other hand, has no physical existence and cannot be perceived by our senses. It is a name given to an idea or emotion. For example, friendship cannot be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. Therefore, it is an abstract noun. Other examples of abstract nouns include childhood, freedom, luck, anger, kindness, truth, etc.
CONCRETE NOUNS LIST
| Baby | Bag | Ball | Bear | Bed |
| Bells | Bicycle | Bike | Board | Boat |
| Book | Bottle | Bow | Brick | Bucket |
| Cap | Candy | Car | Cat | Cell phone |
| Chair | Chalk | Child | Children | Chocolate |
| Cloud | Coffee | Computer | Cookies | Cotton |
| Couch | Crayons | Cup | Curtains | Can |
| Deer | Doctor | Dog | Doll | Door |
| Egg | Elbow | Fan | Fish | Floor |
| Flowers | Foot | Fork | Friend | Fruit |
| Glasses | Gloves | Grapes | Hair | Hamburger |
| Helmet | Horse | Ice cream | Jeans | Lemon |
| Lemonade | Lotion | Milk | Mouse | Music |
| Needle | Newspaper | Paper | Pen | Pencil |
| Perfume | Pillow | Pilot | Quilt | Radio |
| Rain | Rug | Sand | Shirt | Shoes |
| Shower | Soap | Socks | Spoon | Stairs |
| Stars | Stone | Stove | Sweater | Table |
| Tea | Teacher | Telephone | Television | Thread |
| Tree | Typewriter | Watch | Water | Window |
CONCRETE NOUNS EXAMPLES
3 .Mrs. Jones sat on the chair.
4. Robert is eating with a fork.
5. Mr. Smith didn’t feel like eating.
6. She loves to make pies.
7. Do you like cookies?
8. Emily is studying common and proper nouns.
9. Lucy lit the candle.
10. My house is white.
11. He tried to catch the butterfly.
12. The lion roared loudly.
It can take a little while to learn the difference between abstract and concrete nouns. The sample worksheets available on the Internet can be used for practice.
