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Whats the difference between concrete and common nouns?
Concrete nouns are nouns we can touch, such as apples. However, paper is a common noun. We can touch paper why isnt it a concrete noun or a common concrete noun?
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I'm an ESL teacher. Your question is confusing. Here is some information about nouns.
There are concrete nouns that refer to something that you touch, such as your example of an apple, but there are abstract nouns, such as "love", "joy", things that can't be touched.
However, both "apples" and "love" are common nouns, versus proper nouns which always take a capital letter and are the names of things or people: John, Paris, Tuesday.
You are probably confusing the terms "count nouns" and "non-count" nouns, (also called "countable" and "uncountable").
Apples are count nouns because you can count them.
Paper as a substance is a non-count noun. You don't count paper, you count sheets of paper, or packages of paper. Other non-count nouns would be things like, "milk, butter, bread, information, homework".
So to summarize, nouns can be:
concrete or abstract
common or proper
count or non-count.
For more information on these, check out some English grammar web sites such as,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1535_questionanswer/index.shtml
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