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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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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are examples of all the properties of count nouns holding for the count noun chair, but not for the mass noun furniture. Occurrence in plural. There is...
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Singulative number (redirect from Noun of unity)
a noun, and the noun is specially marked to indicate a single item. This is the opposite of the more common singular–plural pattern, where a noun is...
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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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English plurals (redirect from Defective noun)
transcription delimiters. English plurals include the plural forms of English nouns and English determiners. This article discusses the variety of ways in which...
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Hyphen (redirect from Object–verbal noun compound)
where more is an adjective. Similarly, more-beautiful scenery (with a mass-noun) is distinct from more beautiful scenery. (In contrast, the hyphen in...
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and are used with mass nouns (uncountable nouns), and in some cases also with count nouns. For instance, in English, mud is a mass noun and thus one cannot...
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Classifier (linguistics) (redirect from Noun-classifier)
countable units associated with a count noun. Classifiers are used with count nouns; measure words can be used with mass nouns (e.g. "two pints of mud"), and can...
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Plurale tantum (redirect from Plural noun)
English, such words are almost always mass nouns. Some uncountable nouns can be alternatively used as count nouns when meaning "a type of", and the plural...
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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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The word data is most often used as a singular collective mass noun in educated everyday usage. However, due to the history and etymology of the word...
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Grammatical gender (redirect from Noun gender)
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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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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a result, bare nouns have attracted extensive study in the fields of both semantics and syntax. In English, vocatives and mass nouns are felicitous in...
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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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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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Nominative case (section Predicate noun or adjective)
case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or...
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English phrasal verbs (redirect from Noun shift test)
preposition/particle to after the noun. An English preposition can never follow its noun, so if we can change verb - P - noun to verb - noun - P, then P cannot be...
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Animacy (redirect from Animate noun)
existing in some languages, expressing how sentient or alive the referent of a noun is. Widely expressed, animacy is one of the most elementary principles in...
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Chinese classifier (section Relation to nouns)
and mass-classifier, since the first type can only meaningfully be used with count nouns, while the second is used particularly with mass nouns. However...
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class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. The category of articles constitutes...
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they are used as nouns or adjectives. (This is an example of a suprafix.) This process can be found in the case of several dozen verb-noun and verb-adjective...
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Postpositive adjective (redirect from Postpositive noun modifier)
postnominal adjective is an adjective that is placed after the noun or pronoun that it modifies, as in noun phrases such as attorney general, queen regnant, or all...
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Adjective (section Other modifiers of nouns)
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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Incorporation (linguistics) (redirect from Noun incorporation)
modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function. The inclusion of a noun qualifies the verb, narrowing its scope rather than making reference to a...
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from a collection of information, while descriptive statistics (in the mass noun sense) is the process of using and analysing those statistics. Descriptive...
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cards. The word "chad" has been used both as a mass noun (as in "a pile of chad") and as a countable noun (pluralizing as in "many chads"). The origin of...
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