Mary Anne D.
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In working with my fourth grader, we came across a sentence which says, "Five balloons all popped at once." He is supposed to find the nouns in the sentence. He found the word "balloon" correctly, but also discovered the word "once" as a possibility.
I, too, am a bit confused, as I see in the dictionary that "once" can serve in several capacities (noun, adverb, adjective, conjunction) and that "at once" was listed as a phrase used in the noun capacity. However, it seems to be working as an adverb in the above sentence. Refresh me, please!
Is "once" a noun or not in the above capacity?
I, too, am a bit confused, as I see in the dictionary that "once" can serve in several capacities (noun, adverb, adjective, conjunction) and that "at once" was listed as a phrase used in the noun capacity. However, it seems to be working as an adverb in the above sentence. Refresh me, please!
Is "once" a noun or not in the above capacity?