Sentence examples for certain nouns from inspiring English sources

PITY certain nouns that become linked to certain modifiers.

There are certain nouns that are not verb derivatives, yet behave like nominalised verbs; that is, they can enter container contexts without suggesting suppressed nominals.

As Vendler (1967 141) explains: There are certain nouns that are not verb derivatives, yet behave like nominalised verbs; that is, they can enter container contexts without suggesting suppressed nominals.

These words can also form compound classifiers with certain nouns, as in 人次 rén cì "person-time", which can be used to count (for example) visitors to a museum in a year (where visits by the same person on different occasions are counted separately).

Related to this, recognize the difference between certain nouns spelled as one word and verb phrases spelled as two words.

For example, in considering certain noun and verb pairs resulting from conversion, such as talk, walk, etc., Luuk (2010: 352) explains that "[i]n English … tense-aspect-mood marking encodes predicate and determiners encode argument".

There is disagreement about the best way to describe the functions of the lateral cerebellum: It is thought to be involved in planning movement that is about to occur, in evaluating sensory information for action, and in a number of purely cognitive functions, such as determining the verb which best fits with a certain noun (as in "sit" for "chair").

Nouns and Pronouns No plural marker for certain count nouns, e.g. 10 month ago First person singular: us rather than me Second person plural: youse rather than you Reflexive pronouns: mysell, yoursell, hissell, etc. rather than myself, yourself, himself, etc. Negative Constructions divn't rather than don't I've not, you'll not, etc. rather than I haven't, you won't, etc.

In both these cases, the use of the classifier is remembered more by association with certain "prototypical" nouns (such as horse) rather than by understanding of semantic categories, and thus arbitrariness has been used as an argument in favor of the prototype theory of classifiers.

Ownership with certain proper nouns can be tricky.

(The measure function μ is associated to a certain mass noun M. But of course, some mass nouns may share the same measure function.