Practice Test: Nouns- 1 - CAT MCQ

Error Analysis:

• The phrase "a software engineer" should be changed to "software engineers" to match the subject of the sentence, which is Kevin and Roy, indicating that both of them are pursuing this career.
• The correct form should be "decided to become software engineers."
• Therefore, the correct answer is C: a software engineer.

The three nouns in the given sentence are "water," "shark," and "fin." These are all common nouns that represent tangible objects or entities. "Water" refers to a substance, "shark" is a type of marine animal, and "fin" is a body part of certain aquatic creatures.

The phrase "running quickly" does not have parallel structure with "endurance." In order for this sentence to be correct, and for the structure to be correctly parallel, the "runners' combination" must either be two traits, like "endurance and fortitude," or two verbs in the same tense. 

Reserve is the only noun of the choices. Many (D) and great (C) are adjectives modifying the noun poets. Placed (A) is a verb.

"The five best friends" are plural at the beginning of the sentence, we know that while each of them individually might become "a great lawyer" as a group, they would be vowing to become "great lawyers."  As such, that part of the sentence should be corrected.  

• The noun in the sentence "He gave me many pieces of information" is Information.
• Information is a singular noun referring to data or knowledge.

"Identifies the noun" means to recognize or pick out the noun in a sentence. A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. When a question asks you to "identify the noun," it's asking you to find the word in the sentence that is a noun.

For example, in the sentence "The cat sat on the mat," the nouns are "cat" and "mat," because they are the names of a thing (a type of animal and an object, respectively).

Neutrality is a noun. Seize (A) is a verb. Its (B) is a possessive pronoun modifying the noun inhabitants. Flagrant (C) is an adjective modifying the noun disregard.

A count noun that denotes a group of individuals (e.g. assembly, family, crew ). Here it is crowd.

Destruction is a noun. Their is a plural possessive pronoun modifying destruction. Led and accept are verbs.

An abstract noun refers to an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. "Kindness" in the given sentence is an abstract noun as it represents a quality or state.