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...

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...

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...

The syntactic occurrence of nouns differs among languages. In English, prototypical nouns are common nouns or proper nouns that can occur with determiners...

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...

delimiters. English plurals include the plural forms of English nouns and English determiners. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plurals...

with their corresponding nouns in case, number and gender. Finite verbs agreed with their subjects in person and number. Nouns came in numerous declensions...

Uncountable nouns are distinguished from count nouns. Given that different languages have different grammatical features, the actual test for which nouns are...

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...

Everglades, the Azores, the Pleiades). Proper nouns can also occur in secondary applications, for example modifying nouns (the Mozart experience; his Azores adventure)...

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...

the gender classes of English nouns are usually determined by their agreement with pronouns, rather than marking on the nouns themselves. There can be...

Modern English and Modern Scots, and largely incomprehensible for Modern English or Modern Scots speakers without study. Within Old English grammar nouns, adjectives...

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...

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...

qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the grammatical...

because many nouns are stressed on the first syllable; including police, umbrella, and other verb-derived nouns. Some dialects of Scottish English have this...

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...

derivational processes exist for forming new nouns and adjectives. Adverbs can be formed from adjectives. Nouns (‏اِسْمٌ‎ ism) and adjectives in Classical...

The nouns of the German language have several properties, some unique. As in many related Indo-European languages, German nouns possess a grammatical...

nouns (names) and common nouns. Common nouns are in turn divided into concrete and abstract nouns, and grammatically into count nouns and mass nouns....

semantics of count nouns and mass nouns. Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, treat all nouns as mass nouns, and need to make use of a noun classifier (see...

called possessive adjectives when corresponding to a pronoun) or of nouns. For nouns, noun phrases, and some pronouns, the possessive is generally formed with...

words in English examine texts written in English. Perhaps the most comprehensive such analysis is one that was conducted against the Oxford English Corpus...

Countable nouns inflect for number (singular and plural). However, the division between uncountable and countable nouns is more ambiguous than in English. Spanish...

A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...

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...

pre-head modifiers of nouns are adjective phrases (e.g., those nice folks). Finally, English adjectives, unlike English nouns, cannot function as the...

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...

(including English) it is possible for nouns to modify other nouns. Unlike adjectives, nouns acting as modifiers (called attributive nouns or noun adjuncts)...