Question

In the following sentence, a word has been italicized. To what category of a noun does it belong?
Our class consists of twenty pupils.
A) Countable Noun
B) Uncountable Noun
C) Collective Noun
D) Abstract Noun

Answer 1

Hint: A noun is a term that serves as the name for a particular thing or group of objects, such as live beings, locations, activities, attributes, states of existence, or concepts. Noun, on the other hand, is not a semantic category, therefore it cannot be defined in terms of meaning.

Complete answer:
Countable nouns are words that refer to objects or people that can be counted. For instance, one apple, three bears, and so on.
Because they refer to quantity or bulk, uncountable words cannot be enumerated. For instance, some milk, apple juice, and so on.
A group of items of the same sort is referred to as a collective noun. For instance, 'a swarm of bees,' 'a pack of wolves,' and so forth. A group is referred to as a singular being via collective nouns.
Abstract nouns are things that we can't see with our eyes or hear with our ears (touch, see, taste, smell, hear). Emotions or states of being are what they are. For instance, 'happiness,' 'intelligence,' and so on.

Let us look at the given options:
A) Countable Noun: 'Pupils' refers to a group of students in the provided statement. They may be numbered, as the term 'twenty pupils' indicates. As a result, it's a countable noun, and option A is the right answer.
B) Uncountable Noun: This option is incorrect because 'Pupils' can't be uncountable because it already refers to twenty students.
C) Collective Noun: This option is incorrect because it does not relate to the ‘pupils’ as a singular entity, it cannot be collective. (For instance, 'a class of students.') Because the text refers to individual students, they have been tallied as twenty.
D) Abstract Noun: This option is incorrect because students are pupils, and pupils are human beings who can be experienced via all of our senses. The noun must be concrete.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: Some rules of nouns are:
- Some nouns are singular by definition. Consider the case of machinery.
- There is no single form for several nouns, thus they are always in plural form. Take, for example, assets.
- Singular and plural forms of some nouns are interchangeable. Sheep, for example.
- Number-expressing nouns, such as hundred, dozen, and score, are used with numerical adjectives in the singular.