The three main categories of English nouns are common nouns, proper nouns, and pronouns. A defining feature of English nouns is their ability to inflect...
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List of animal names (redirect from List of English animal nouns)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Usage of collective nouns Notes Further reading External links The terms in this table apply to many...
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In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific...
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The syntactic occurrence of nouns differs among languages. In English, prototypical nouns are common nouns or proper nouns that can occur with determiners...
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determiner phrase is a type of noun phrase containing a determiner. Many common suffixes form nouns from other nouns or from other types of words, such...
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delimiters. English plurals include the plural forms of English nouns and English determiners. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plurals...
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with their corresponding nouns in case, number and gender. Finite verbs agreed with their subjects in person and number. Nouns came in numerous declensions...
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understanding of phrases, the nouns and pronouns in bold in the following sentences are noun phrases (as well as nouns or pronouns): He saw someone. Milk...
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Uncountable nouns are distinguished from count nouns. Given that different languages have different grammatical features, the actual test for which nouns are...
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Old English n-stem nouns but also from ō-stem, wō-stem, and u-stem nouns,[citation needed] which did not inflect in the same way as n-stem nouns in Old...
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Declension (redirect from Declension (nouns))
the gender classes of English nouns are usually determined by their agreement with pronouns, rather than marking on the nouns themselves. There can be...
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Everglades, the Azores, the Pleiades). Proper nouns can also occur in secondary applications, for example modifying nouns (the Mozart experience; his Azores adventure)...
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Modern English and Modern Scots, and largely incomprehensible for Modern English or Modern Scots speakers without study. Within Old English grammar nouns, adjectives...
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helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and orthography. The citation form for nouns (the form normally shown in Latin...
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Conversion (word formation) (redirect from Verbing nouns)
example, the noun green in golf (referring to a putting-green) is derived ultimately from the adjective green. Conversions from adjectives to nouns and vice...
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Grammatical gender (redirect from Neuter nouns)
qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the grammatical...
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because many nouns are stressed on the first syllable; including police, umbrella, and other verb-derived nouns. Some dialects of Scottish English have this...
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also possible (e.g., Only one matters, mine/me.). Like proper nouns, but unlike common nouns, pronouns usually resist dependents.: 425 They are not always...
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The nouns of the German language have several properties, some unique. As in many related Indo-European languages, German nouns possess a grammatical...
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derivational processes exist for forming new nouns and adjectives. Adverbs can be formed from adjectives. Nouns (اِسْمٌ ism) and adjectives in Classical...
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nouns (names) and common nouns. Common nouns are in turn divided into concrete and abstract nouns, and grammatically into count nouns and mass nouns....
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words in English examine texts written in English. Perhaps the most comprehensive such analysis is one that was conducted against the Oxford English Corpus...
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called possessive adjectives when corresponding to a pronoun) or of nouns. For nouns, noun phrases, and some pronouns, the possessive is generally formed with...
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Grammatical case (redirect from Noun cases in English)
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...
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Countable nouns inflect for number (singular and plural). However, the division between uncountable and countable nouns is more ambiguous than in English. Spanish...
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pre-head modifiers of nouns are adjective phrases (e.g., those nice folks). Finally, English adjectives, unlike English nouns, cannot function as the...
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Adjective (redirect from Adjective order in English)
(including English) it is possible for nouns to modify other nouns. Unlike adjectives, nouns acting as modifiers (called attributive nouns or noun adjuncts)...
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determinative combines with a noun (or, more formally, a nominal; see English nouns § Internal structure) to form a noun phrase (NP). This function typically...
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Apostrophe (redirect from Apostrophe in English)
last of a set of linked nouns where the nouns are acting together [...] but repeat 's after each noun in a set where the nouns are acting separately" Garner's...
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used as count nouns and pluralized but cannot be inflected vis-a-vis a given grammatical person. In English, gerunds used as verbal nouns comprise the...
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