Sentence examples for plain nouns from inspiring English sources
(But you do graph or chart things; these are plain nouns that evidently needed verbing).
Then, as if all that weren't enough, style guides disagree on how to deal with proper names ending in S. The "Chicago Manual of Style" says that you form the possessive of proper names ending in S the same way you handle plain-old nouns: Add apostrophe and S. The boss's house.
Has any writer since Hemingway placed more faith in the simple declarative sentence, the plain Anglo-Saxon noun?
What's more, she used plain words, calling a noun a "name" and an auxiliary verb a "helping verb".
And that plain old uncynical, workmanlike common nouns lose their naughty aura through unembarrassed use.
But the sense of unyieldingness somehow prevailed, and by 1936 we find adamant meaning just plain stubborn (though the point at which it slid from noun to adjective is "not determinable").
"My use of these words was intended to make it plain that I had not called him a black" — here Terry used the rude noun — "and that in reality, Anton was a" — here he used a different rude noun — "for even suggesting that I had".
Here's what we get under the word aequora (aequor, aequoris, neuter noun): [AEQUUS] a smooth or level surface, expanse, surface; a level stretch of ground, plain; inmensumne noctis aequor confecimus?
Xerox is often used to mean photocopy, both noun and verb, and it comes from the company Xerox, which produced the first plain paper photocopier.
