Sentence examples for word noun from inspiring English sources

In extreme free-word-order languages it is doubtful that phrases of more than one word (noun phrase, prepositional phrase, verb phrase, clause, sentence) are syntactically well-defined.

The Oxford English Dictionary's three core entries on the word — noun, verb and interjection — are about six times as long as this article.

For example, written text is composed of distinct words arranged in lines and paragraphs on a page, and readers typically fixate every content word (noun, verb, adjective, and adverb) in a line, progressing from left to right (in English).

Within these lists, one randomly selected target word (noun or verb) was repeated 17 times while all remaining words were presented only once.

All primes were nouns, and targets were either real word nouns or legally spelled non-words.

In case (haha!) you're a bit scruffy on your terminology, cases are seen on endings put on a word (nouns and adjectives, namely) that mark its grammatical function.

POS Target words Most-agreed upon labels All agreed-upon words Noun 250 271 1328 Verb 98 65 488 Adj. 14 4 117 Adv.

Previous studies on undergraduates have used a "minimum combination of two content words (noun, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs)" without attribution as a form of text-borrowing, and defined a legitimate paraphrases as "no trace of direct borrowing of two or three consecutive words from source texts" (Shi, 2004, p. 178 179).

These are organized in terms of the document sectioning and possible relations between groups of words (noun phrases).

We're reasonably good at picking up on "content words": nouns, action verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

There is no end to the words: movie titles, names, dirty words, nouns, conjunctions and slang.