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Originally Posted by CantExplain
GENTLE TEASING:
Find the three nouns in that paragraph! Nouns are not as common as we might think.
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Originally Posted by Perna
How do you secretly feel about this? Do you agree with them? My husband has to help me sometimes by saying, "I don't hear any nouns". When I told my therapist that, she brightened up noticeably and asked, "Can I say that too?"
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Being that I am an elementary school teacher, I had to get in on this and classify this post (label the parts). A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea. The nouns in this post are:
husband,
therapist, and
nouns is also used as a noun here because it is a direct object to the verb
"hear what?" so it is a
thing. My count is 3 nouns.
Since a pronoun
takes the place of a noun, she actually used a lot more nouns than it appears. I count 11 pronouns. I only teach at a 3rd grade level, so I may not have gotten all of this correct. I did have my 18 year old daughter check for me.
You see what I just did? I completely deflected from the topic of this thread. Classifying this sentence has nothing to do with why I can't talk in a session. This is what my therapist says I do all the time. I avoid and deflect. I try my darndest to chase rabbits and get her so off topic of the real issue that it takes us in a whirlwind of nothingness to get back to why I am not talking in the first place!
Every sentence must contain a noun or a pronoun. So, nouns
are common if you count pronouns in the sentence.