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Scarf witty 274 Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Concrete and abstract nouns

I’m this sentence, are there just 2 common nouns?

“I left my old shoes in the closet.”

My guess is that shoes is a common noun, and closet is a common noun, or is one of the common nouns “old shoes?”

Thanks.

  

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scarf witty 274 My guess is that shoes is a common noun, and closet is a common noun, Right! "Old" is an adjective, though, not a noun.

  • scarf witty 274 My guess is that shoes is a common noun, and closet is a common noun, Right!
  • "Old" is an adjective, though, not a noun.
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scarf witty 274My guess is that shoes is a common noun, and closet is a common noun,

Right!

"Old" is an adjective, though, not a noun.

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