Sentence examples for nouns from inspiring English sources

The Mattel game, Apples to Apples, asks players to compare things – in its original version, nouns and adjectives – in order to create "crazy combinations" in a game "as unique as the individuals who are playing".

They function as topograms – tiny landscape poems, folded up inside verbs and nouns.

— Andrea Wulf (@andrea_wulf) September 19 , 2012Fussbodenschleifmaschinenverleih - only inGermany we have words / shops named as such twitter.com/andrea_wulf/st… German compound nouns are just about the best thing about any European languages.

Whedon admits that the nature of talking about a show like this is that they find themselves using "lots of adjectives, no nouns".

I've often been reminded of Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's genius catalogue of nonce words, The Meaning of Liff (1983), in which British place names are used as nouns for the "hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognise, but for which no words exist".

In it, all nouns are marked for case, an ending that tells what function the word has in a sentence (subject, direct object, possessive and so on).

"Gender" is related to "genre", and means merely a group of nouns lumped together for grammatical purposes.

The idea is that a phrase in one language has a certain probability of being a particular phrase in a second language.This probability-matching has become possible thanks to the enormous collections of texts, or "corpora", which have been built up on computer databases for linguistics research, and tagged with their parts of speech (verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc).

Some languages proliferate endings on verbs and nouns, like Latin and Russian.

MY COLLEAGUES have already drawn attention elsewhere on this blog to the creation of new verbs, often from nouns, in English.

More resourceful still, these sorts of verbs can then be turned back into nouns.