Question

The quick brown fox jumped over the small slow dog as it ran past the busy road. How many nouns are there in this sentence?

Answer 1

The quick brown fox jumped over the small slow dog as it ran past the busy road.

There are three nouns in the given sentence. These are: ‘fox’, ‘dog’, and ‘road’.

All these three nouns are common nouns. Common noun is a word that refers to an object or a thing that does not have a particular name.

Answer 2

There are three nouns in the sentence. These are fox, dog and road. All the three nouns are examples of common nouns. Common nouns are used to refer to things of the same kind.

In the above example, all the three nouns are preceded by adjectives that describe the nouns.