This article is one of a series called Spanish Tidbits for Beginners. Here we will talk about the basics of nouns and the definite and indefinite articles that go with. Nouns In Spanish, nouns have both gender and number. Number, as in English, refers to whether a noun is singular or plural. box → boxes ...
In her book, English Grammar: Language as Human Behavior, Anita K. Barry discusses the historical definition of nouns as names of a “person, place, or thing” (22), but she expands on that definition by including subcategories of nouns including count nouns, non-count nouns, and the usage of derivational suffixes. Barry describes “derivational suffixes” as “an ...
Most people know a few collective nouns. They know that there are such things as a gaggle of geese and a school of fish. There are some odder ones that are still more commonly known among people such as a herd of buffalo, a class of students, and a fleet of ships. However, there are ...
We know that a noun is the name of any person, place, object, concept or idea. We also know the classifications as proper noun, common noun, possessive noun, singular noun, plural noun, abstract noun and collective noun. There are more nouns in the English Language than any other kind of words. Have you conversant with ...
My mother was a teacher. So, every day was filled with learning experiences for my siblings and me as we grew up. One subject she particularly concentrated on was the English language. Besides teaching us how to accurately spell, enunciate when we speak, and create properly-structured sentences, my mother made sure we learned the basic ...
What do you do when your sentences tangle themselves up in knots? It’s a common problem. Writers often discover awkward sentences strewn across their first drafts. That’s one reason good writers make a point of editing their own work. It’s during editing passes that writers can discover and fix any awkward sentences that snuck in ...
