Sentence examples for English noun from inspiring English sources
Twitter has itself been transmuted from an English noun into a French verb.
The English noun nudge is not a person but an action, often of the elbow to another's ribs and frequently accompanied by a wink or a leer.
The French verb trancher means "to cut," and the English noun trench is "a long cut in the ground," historically protecting a military position.
Contrastive (unpredictable) stress (such as the stress difference in the English noun contest [pronounced CONtest] versus the verb contest [pronounced conTEST]), on the other hand, is very rare, found only in Cuitlatec, Tarascan, and Tequistlatecan.
If, on the other hand, you know a bit of French, you will have uttered a weary sigh at yet another instance of the journalese habit of shoving a French definite article ("le", "la" or "les", as the case may be) in front of an English noun, as a rib-nudging signal to the reader that those Froggies are up to their fun and games again.
The English noun "concinnity" and the adjective, "concinnous" are employed to designate the unremarkable physiology of the immune system doing its maintenance functions, and "autoimmunity" should then be limited to describe and refer to autoimmune diseases, i.e., those pathological conditions of immune attack on the animal's own tissues (Tauber 2015).
Modern English nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs are inflected.
She has to write down five English nouns.
Suddenly, she is scrolling through extraterrestrial symbols on her tablet and matching them to English nouns and verbs.
Most English nouns have plural inflection in (-e s, but that form shows variations in pronunciation in the words cats (with a final s sound), dogs (with a final z sound), and horses (with a final iz sound), as also in the 3rd person singular present-tense forms of verbs: cuts (s), jogs (z), and forces (iz).
For example, the regular plurals of English nouns are formed by adding one of three morphs on to the form of the singular: /s/, /z/, or /iz/ (in the corresponding written forms both /s/ and /z/ are written -s and /iz/ is written -es).
