Select in the following sentences the nouns that are names of objects
which have a real and separate existence outside of the mind, and those
which are names of things that have no real existence and are only
thought of in the mind:—
1. Contentment is better than gold.
2. Virtue is its own reward.
3. Truth crushed to earth, shall rise again,—
The eternal years of God are hers.—_Bryant._
A noun that is the name of an object which has a real and separate
existence outside of the mind, is called a =concrete noun=; as, gold,
water.
A noun that is the name of something which has not a real and separate
existence outside of the mind, is called an =abstract noun=; as, truth,
justice.