All posts tagged "plural noun"

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  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 AdverbsHeather JohnsonMay 1, 2019
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  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 AdverbsHeather JohnsonApril 14, 2019
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  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....

  InformationHeather JohnsonApril 6, 2019
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  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 AdjectivesHeather JohnsonMarch 31, 2019
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  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...

  InformationHeather JohnsonNovember 16, 2018
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  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 NounsHeather JohnsonMay 19, 2013
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  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 NounsHeather JohnsonMarch 27, 2013
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  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 NounsHeather JohnsonMarch 23, 2013
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  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 NounsHeather JohnsonMarch 23, 2013
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  English Nouns

  Notional grammars define nouns as “words that name people, places, things, and ideas.” Noun phrases are phrases that consist of a...

  English NounsHeather JohnsonSeptember 17, 2011