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/0:
This is from a school exam:

When evening came, the men assembled at the edge of the forest. Uncertainty and doubt behind, each man understood the importance of his personal mission. A mistake would throw every life into danger and at some point their presence would be detected. Each man stood at the brink of a private nightmare. Discovery was inevtiable, however, and the consequences would be deadly for some. MacMahon, a solitary gifure dressed in grey and shadowed by grief, coughed softly. The men lifted their worn faces to their Captain.

Identify:

5 common nouns: (I got 4)

4 adverbs: (I only got 1)

What are the answers? :( thanks :)

jackinthepatch:
Is the question saying that there are only 5 common nouns and 4 adverbs in the whole paragraph? Or are there more, but you only have to identify a few of them?

Because I counted more than 5 nouns lol...that could just be me though lol.

/0:
I think there might be more, but they have to be common nouns, not just nouns.

jackinthepatch:
Evening, men, forest, uncertainty, doubt (in this case it's a noun). There's a lot more than that...if my definition of a common noun is correct. From what I was taught, a noun is a thing/object or a concept.

/0:
I put down uncertainty, danger, discovery, consequences, and grief as abstract nouns and they were correct. As common nouns I put forest, figure, Captain, men, and faces, but Captain was marked incorrect.

What I've heard is that common nouns are nouns that can be touched or that aren't abstract nouns. (With abstract nouns being ideas, concepts etc.)

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