Sentence examples for alone noun from inspiring English sources

When words had more than one reading (e.g., head 頭, in which the Japanese as a stand-alone noun is read /atama/ and when used in a compound it is pronounced /gashira/ or /tou/), frequency of the stand alone noun only was used).

In our retronymic age, the stand-alone noun soap is washed up.

It's about my use of the stand-alone noun phrase 'all those journalistic nonsense.' The forum member, Mr. Max Sims of Australia, insists that I should have used 'all that journalistic nonsense' instead.

Like mass nouns, Chinese common nouns do not undergo pluralization and can stand alone as noun phrases.

Nicolas (2004, 2010) shows that a general account of the semantics of mass nouns can indeed be proposed, provided one takes a more general stance than when focusing on concrete mass nouns alone.

Sometimes he whispers stories made up of nouns alone -- some recognizable, some improvised.

Nouns in Romanian have two cases, direct (nominative-objective) and oblique (possessive-dative), and have separate singular and plural forms for the noun standing alone and the noun with the definite article suffixed.

It is also possible for a classifier alone to qualify a noun, the numeral ("one") being omitted, as in 买马 mǎi mǎ "buy horse", i.e. "buy a horse".

There are also other grammatical contexts in which classifiers are used, including after the demonstratives 这 zhè ("this") and 那 nà ("that"); however, when a noun stands alone without any such qualifier, no classifier is needed.

Sometimes the nouns come with a qualifying word, like "Bestseller" or "Da Vinci," but the most best-seller-y option lets the nouns stand alone.

Because they live and hunt alone, there is no collective noun for cougars.