• In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and...
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  • A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common...
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  • A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun...
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  • linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related...
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  • Deverbal nouns are nouns that are derived from verbs or verb phrases. Verbal nouns and deverbal nouns are distinct syntactic word classes. Functionally...
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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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    The Noun Project is a website that aggregates and catalogs symbols that are created and uploaded by graphic designers around the world. Based in Los Angeles...
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  • than hinder easy comprehension. The use of the hyphen in English compound nouns and verbs has, in general, been steadily declining. Compounds that might...
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  • Adjectival noun may refer to: Adjectival noun (Japanese), also called adjectival or na-adjective Noun adjunct, a noun that qualifies another noun, like college...
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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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  • In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent...
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  • Look up verbal noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Historically, grammarians have described a verbal noun or gerundial noun as a verb form that functions...
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  • Bhojpuri nouns are a category of words in the Bhojpuri language. As in other Indo-Aryan languages, Bhojpuri nouns possess a gender, either masculine or...
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  • Pronoun (redirect from Prop-noun)
    (glossed PRO) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the parts...
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  • noun adjunct in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, a noun adjunct, attributive noun, qualifying noun, noun (pre)modifier, or apposite noun is...
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  • Grammatical case (redirect from Noun case)
    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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  • Look up count noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a count noun (also countable noun) is a noun that can be modified by a quantity...
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  • In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity...
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  • word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives are considered...
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    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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  • Noun is the solo musical project of Screaming Females lead guitar player Marissa Paternoster. Paternoster started recording as Noun in 2004 and had a...
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  • possessive" (-'s). Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are open classes – word classes that readily accept new members, such as the noun celebutante (a...
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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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  • Look up noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Noun is one of the parts of speech. Noun or Nouns may also refer to: Noun (department), a division of...
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  • Possessive (redirect from Possessive Noun)
    Together with a noun, as in my car, your sisters, his boss. Here the possessive form serves as a possessive determiner. Without an accompanying noun, as in mine...
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  • modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative clause refers to the noun or noun phrase...
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    language has nouns that express concrete objects, groups and classes of objects, qualities, feelings and other abstractions. All nouns have a conventional...
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  • Arabic nouns and adjectives are declined according to case, state, gender and number. While this is strictly true in Classical Arabic, in colloquial or...
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    three main categories of English nouns are common nouns, proper nouns, and pronouns. A defining feature of English nouns is their ability to inflect for...
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  • Plural (redirect from Plural nouns)
    category of number. The plural of a noun typically denotes a quantity greater than the default quantity represented by that noun. This default quantity is most...
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