Words similar to noun
Example sentences for: noun
How can you use “noun” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
For example, whereas Anglos refer to squirrels as he , some Hispanics will consistently call a squirrel she , presumbly because in Spanish the noun for squirrel ( ardilla ) is feminine.
My hunch also tells me that there are more people who use media as a singular noun than there are people who write bristling letters to the editor insisting on its immutable plurality—which is to say, a lot.
This was added to as it travelled north and west by words like yabber talk, based on the root ya -, found in Wiradhuri and other languages), the Yagara (Brisbane) words bung dead, humpy dwelling, and yacka work (as noun and verb), and, particularly, by names for flora and fauna the travellers now recognized as being commonly found in the inland.
On my way there, however, I was charmed by a collective noun (foreign, I thought) having a singularly bad time in the middle of the dance floor with a profoundly intransitive verb.
This feature has already been demonstrated in the very first example (the cock that crows) and also in clue F. Clue J offers two further instances: at first reading, changed is suggestive of being a past tense but after analysis it is identified as a past participle (serving as an anagram flag); likewise, quarterly shifts from adverb to noun.