ABSTRACT

Nouns are an open word class (see B1); new nouns are being devised almost every day, it seems. A recent example is chocoholic. Nouns are by far the most numerous word class; they also tend to make up more of a text than other open word classes. Activity A2.1

Look at the paragraph above. How many nouns are there? (Do not count repetitions.)

The traditional notional definition of noun goes something like this: