I was taught in my high school that a noun can be a person, place, animal or a thing? The word "benchmark" does not qualify to be any one of them yet it is considered as a noun
Can someone please explain me how?
I was taught in my high school that a noun can be a person, place, animal or a thing? The word "benchmark" does not qualify to be any one of them yet it is considered as a noun
Can someone please explain me how?
A noun can also be an abstract thought, idea, or concept. It doesn't have to be a physical object to be considered a noun.
A good example is that numbers (1, 2, 3...) are also considered nouns.
I used to visit benchmarks (or "bench marks" as we called them) when I worked for the UK Ordnance Survey, the government's mapping agency. They are measuring points, placed on fixed landscape features or buildings, used by surveyors. The noun later came to have a figurative use, and finally to also be a verb.
Here is a picture of an OS bench mark: