This is one of the question asked in Kid's grammar paper, the question was, underline the nouns in the sentence and mention the type of noun.
Elephant is the strongest animal.
Kid underlined elephant and animal. But his teacher says strongest is also a noun and its abstract noun.
We think strongest is not noun here, instead it's adjective.
Are we correct, if not can you guys explain please.
Best Answer
Strongest would be an abstract noun if the sentence was written like this:
You can't have two nouns back-to-back without a conjunction such as and or or.
The pattern is almost always this:
{ Article / determiner } { Adjective } { 2nd adjective, etc. } .... { Noun }