All posts tagged "plural noun"
Thieves, Knives, and Chiefs and English PluralsEnglish is rule-based. I repeat: Like all languages, English is rule-based. A tweet recently appeared in my Twitter feed in which...
InformationMay 3, 2020- Not All Forms That Function as Adverbials Are Adverbs
The other day I read a tweet that made some claims about adverbs: “The -s in “unawares,” as in “they were...
English AdverbsMay 1, 2019 - Are ‘Yesterday,’ ‘Today’, and ‘Tomorrow’ Nouns or Adverbs?
Are the words yesterday, today, and tomorrow adverbs or nouns? Oxford Living Dictionaries identifies all three words as an adverb first...
English AdverbsApril 14, 2019 - Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Singular and Plural
I recently shared a photo across my social media accounts of the grammar textbook that I currently use with my oldest....
InformationApril 6, 2019 - Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Nouns and Adjectives
Notional grammars define adjectives as “words that describe nouns.” Big, cute, green, small, and wonky are prototypical adjectives. In big bully,...
English AdjectivesMarch 31, 2019 - Pluralizing Last Names: Never Use an Apostrophe
One way in which nouns differ from other grammatical forms in the English language is grammatical number. Prototypical English nouns have...
InformationNovember 16, 2018 - Types of Nouns: Common, Proper, Collective, Compound, Count, and Noncount
Traditional grammars define nouns as “words that name people, places, things, and ideas.” Prototypical nouns express grammatical number, singular and plural,...
English NounsMay 19, 2013 - Grammatical Form of English Nouns
Traditional grammars define nouns as “words that refer to people, places, things, and ideas.” Pronouns are a subcategory of nouns. Noun...
English NounsMarch 27, 2013 - Irregular Plural Nouns in English
Prototypical English nouns have both singular and plural forms. Singular nouns refer to one “person, place, thing, or idea” while plural...
English NounsMarch 23, 2013 - Regular Plural Nouns in English
Prototypical English nouns have both singular and plural forms. Singular nouns refer to one “person, place, thing, or idea” while plural...
English NounsMarch 23, 2013 - English Nouns
Notional grammars define nouns as “words that name people, places, things, and ideas.” Noun phrases are phrases that consist of a...
English NounsSeptember 17, 2011
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