a member of a class of words that can function as the subject or object in a construction, are often formally distinguished, as by taking the plural and possessive endings, and typically refer to persons, places, animals, things, states, or qualities, as cat, desk, Ohio, darkness. [1350...
Unfortunately, there are not as many rules to know whether a noun in Spanish is masculine. In any case, if a word has any of the following endings you can be absolutely sure that it is masculine. ARO Words ending in -aro ARE ALWAYS MASCULINE El descaro = nerve, insolence El pájaro =...
Our Living LanguageIn English, plurals of nouns are normally indicated by the ending-sor-es,or in a few cases by-en,as inchildrenandoxen.Some vernacular varieties of English do not use plural endings in measurement phrases such asthree mileandten pound.This zero plural has a long history an...
n. Grammarany member of a class of words that are formally distinguished in many languages, as in English, typically by the plural and possessive endings and that can function as the main or only elements of subjects or objects, ascat, belief, writing, Ohio, darkness.Nouns are often thought...
Note: The possessive (genitive) third-person pronoun forms shown here do not indicate the various additional case endings they might have in a typical sentence in various situations, such asseiner(his) andihres(their). Demonstrative Pronouns (der, die, denen) ...
Yet More Irregular Noun Endings More about the plural noun can be found in the post “Subject-Verb Agreement“. Credit to:Ellis NOTE: Crystal notes the “greengrocer’s apostrophe” which results from the confusion as to whether food nouns end insoreswith the produce becoming‘s:potato’s,tom...
In latin, a noun derived from a verb and having all case forms except the nominative.动名词拉丁语中的动名词, 有除主格外的所有格的形式. Life is a verb not a noun.生命是个动词,不是名词. You said bed, is a verb or noun, is a narrow or broad sense?你说的上床, 是动词还是名词, 是...
•Caseisagrammaticalcategory.Itdenotesthechangesintheformofanounorpronounshowingitsrelationshipwithotherwordsinasentence.AsmodernEnglishisbasicallyananalyticlanguage,EnglishnounshavenotacomplicatedcasesystemlikethatofLatin,German,ormodernRussian.•ThedifferentgrammaticalfunctionsofEnglishnounsinasentencearemostlydetermined...
Popquiz 1.Tidings(has/have)comethattheBritishwarshipwassunk.2.What(is/are)hispolitics(政治观点)？3.Theplaywaswellwritten,butthedramaticsoftheperformance (was/were)second-rate.4.Thepublic(was/were)convincedofhisinnocence.5.Thepoultry(is/are)keptinthe...
a member of a class of words that can function as the subject or object in a construction, are often formally distinguished, as by taking the plural and possessive endings, and typically refer to persons, places, animals, things, states, or qualities, ascat, desk, Ohio, darkness. ...