Identifying nouns

For each sentence, choose the option that lists all the nouns (and noun/adjectives) in the sentence. Click Submit after each question to see feedback and to record your answer. After you have finished every question, your answers will be submitted to your instructor’s gradebook. You may review your answers by returning to the exercise at any time. (An exercise reports to the gradebook only if your instructor has assigned it.)

For help with this exercise, see Nouns.

Example

Question 1 of 5

Truthfulness is a virtue lacking in some public officials.

Question 2 of 5

The Wright Brothers used a wind tunnel to test their airplane designs.

Question 3 of 5

The miners’ work clothes were clogged with fine black dust.

Question 4 of 5

Virginia Woolf wrote that women needed their own income and their own space.

Question 5 of 5

The child’s language was a charming combination of her father’s English and her mother’s French.