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Syntactic Theory » Exercises » for Traditional Grammar » Identify nouns

Parts of Speech

Nouns

Extract all nouns from the following sentences.

Write them into the answer line in the order in which they occur, separated with commas.

(:vips 8527:)

(:vips 8528:)

(:vips 8536:)

Apply the test from the page on nouns to these nouns. Which problems do you encounter?

(For a list of potential problems see here.)

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