In the above sentence, "computer" is an adjective because it is describing "company". Cleanliness is next to Godliness. The World Wide Web has become the least expensive way to publish information. A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. The word "noun" derives from the Latin nomen meaning "name", and ...

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In linguistics, a count noun (also countable noun) is a noun which can be modified by a numeral and occur in both singular and plural form, as well as co-occurring with quantificational determiners like every, each, several, most, etc. A mass noun has none of these properties. It can't be modified by a numeral, occur in singular/plural or co-occur with the relevant kind of determiner. Below we see examples of all these properties for the count noun cow and the mass noun cattle. As alway ...

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Collective nouns (also known as terms of venery, veneral nouns or nouns of assemblage) in English are subject-specific words used to define a grouping of people, animals, objects or concepts. For example, in the phrase "a parliament of owls", parliament is a collective noun. Such nouns are not compulsory, and are in general not widely used. A parliament of owls could equally well be referred to as "a group of owls", "a bunch ...

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Arabic grammar - State. The Arabic noun can take one of three states of definiteness: definite, indefinite or construct state. The definite state is marked by the article al-. The indefinite state is marked by an ending -n (nunation). The construct state is unmarked and occurs in the f ...

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The term bright, used as a noun, is a neologism invented by Paul Geisert in 2003 as a positive-sounding umbrella term to describe various kinds of people who have a naturalistic worldview. Mynga Futrell defined the word as follows: A bright is a person whose worldview is naturalistic - free of supernatural and mystical elements. A bright's ethics and actions are based on a naturalistic worldview. Geisert in ...

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See also Collective noun. List of collective nouns for birds - External link. An exhaustive (though possibly partly fictitious) list of collective nouns for birds Category: Lists of collective nouns ...

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Baton refers to: The term baton refers to any of several types of cylindrical or tapered instruments composed of a wide variety of materials, and of differing functions: A baton (billy, billy club, nightstick, riot stick) is a type of striking/parrying weapon, staff or club, typically used by police, military, security personnel or martial artists. A baton (symbol) is also used as a symbolic attribute of military or other office. Conductors use light-weight batons for directin ...

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A verb phrase (VP) is a phrase whose head is a verb. A verb phrase consists of a verb, often one or two complements, and any number of adjuncts. Examples: In the sentence Mary saw the man through the window. The VP is the whole sequence saw the man through the window, whereas Mary is the noun phrase (NP). In John gave Mary a book, the VP is gave Mary a book. And finally, the VP may consist of a single verb. The baby cri ...

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An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually describing it or making its meaning more specific. However, adjectives are not a universally recognized word class; in other words, some languages do not have any adjectives. The Chinese languages, for example, have no adjectives; all the words that are translated into English as adjectives are, in fact, stative verbs. The most widely recognized adjectives are those words, such as big, old, and tired that actually describe people, places, or th ...

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A compound is a word (lexeme) that consists of more than one free morpheme. A certain type of compound (endocentric) consists of a head, i.e. the categorical part that contains the basic meaning of the whole compound, and modifiers, which restrict this meaning. For example, the English compound doghouse, where house is the head and dog is the modifier, is understood as a house intended for a dog. Obviously, an endocentric compound ten ...

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Several collective nouns perform double, triple or even more duties. "Herd" is a legitimate collective noun for dozens of animals and (rather curiously) the mythical fairy. Also interestingly, "herd" can be used with wild horses and domestic cattle, but not with domestic horses. Likewise, "flock" is a generic collective noun for all sorts of flying birds and also for sheep. The all-time champion collective noun is "set", for it can legitimately be used as a collective noun for a vast number of concepts (a set of ideals, ...

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Many nouns used are colourful, or even fanciful; this originated in an English hunting tradition (of uncertain origin) for giving poetic names to prey. (The phrase "terms of venery" is an archaic synonym for collective nouns - "venery" in this context meaning the "act of hunting"). For this reason, most collective nouns refer to animals. This tradition dates back to at least the 15th century. Many of these original collective nouns are archaic: a "harass of horses" doesn't s ...

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All Spanish nouns have one of two grammatical genders: masculine or feminine (mostly conventional, that is, arbitrarily assigned). Most adjectives and pronouns, and all articles and participles, indicate the gender of the noun they reference or modify. In a sentence like "Large tables are nicer", the Spanish equivalent, Las mesas grandes son más bonitas, must use words according to the gender of the noun. The noun, mesa ("table"), is feminine in Spanish. Therefore, the article (i. e. the word for "the") must be feminine ...

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There are two grammatical numbers: singular and plural. The singular form is the one found in dictionaries (base form). The plural is indicated in most words by adding -s (if the base form ends in a vowel) or -es otherwise. Note that final y in words like rey, though phonetically a vowel, counts as a consonant (rey → reyes). The masculine gender is used for plural forms of mixed sexes (it is inclusive): los niños, grammatically masculine, may mean "the children" or "the boys". The fe ...

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Every French noun has a grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine. The grammatical gender of an animate noun usually corresponds to the noun's natural gender. For such nouns, there will very often be one noun of each gender, with the choice of noun being determined by the natural gender of the person described; for example, a male singer is a chanteur, while a female singer is a chanteuse. In some cases, the two nouns are identical in form, with the difference only being marked in neighboring words (due to gender agreeme ...

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There are two genders of nouns in Danish: Common and Neuter. The common nouns use the en article and the neuter ones use et. dreng = boy; æble = apple These declinations, however, are not universal in the plural, as they can be either one regardless of gender. In order to correctly decline a noun, one must look it up in a dictionary or memorise the declension form. pige = girl; hus = house There are no case declinations in Danish nouns, except the genitive(ejefald), which is normally applied as an -s ending, or simply with an apostrop ...

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Main article: Spanish nouns Spanish has nouns that express concrete objects, groups and classes of objects, qualities, feelings and other abstractions. As in English, all nouns are either countable or uncountable (not to imply that the distinction is always clear-cut) and, unlike English, also have a conventional grammatical gender (masculine or feminine). Countable nouns inflect for number (singular and plural). See ...

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The Hebrew word for "noun" is שם עצם shem etsem. Hebrew nouns are inflected by gender, number (and sometimes by possession) but not by case. Nouns are generally correlated to verbs (by shared roots), but their forming is not as systematic, often due to loanwords from foreign languages. Hebrew grammar - Gender. Hebrew distinguishes between masculine nouns—such as ספר sefer (book)—and feminine nou ...

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