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Guest  +  66637 Mon, 10 Jan 05 01:32 AM
reading, writing and speaking are important skills.

what are the nouns in that sentance?
Mister Micawber  +  66650 Mon, 10 Jan 05 03:57 AM


In your sentence, there are four nouns:

reading
writing
speaking
skills

The first three are '-ing' forms of the verb used as nouns and called 'gerunds'.

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