TOEFL Preliminary Course - Parts Of Speech 1

As recently as a century ago, tigers were commonplace throughout Asia, excluding the Middle East and western Russia.

Spot the nouns in the sentence above!

As recently as a century ago, tigers were commonplace throughout Asia, excluding the Middle East and western Russia.

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Most of the loss in tiger population and habitat is due to the expansion of the activities of civilization, such as mining and farming, and to the deforestation that happens concurrently.

Spot the subject of the sentence! Hint the subject is always 'NOUN' in form.

Indeed, the Bengal tiger, the most populous of all tiger subspecies, only (............) about 2,500 animals in the wild, though that number has increased slightly in recent years.