Words similar to nouns
Example sentences for: nouns
How can you use “nouns” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Though there are plenty of examples to show that some namers of streets in Santa Fe are aware that in Spanish a definitive modifier follows the modified word, so that there are streets properly named, for instance, Camino Cerrito, Calle Lorca , or Plaza Fatima , there are other street names that betray oblivion to this grammatical rule, for example: Monte Vista Place or Cielo Vista Court where Monte Vista and Cielo Vista are supposed to mean respectively Mountain View and Sky View but, so far as they signify anything, really mean View Mountain and View Sky or Heaven . Even more common in Santa Fe are names in which adjectives fail to agree as to gender with the nouns they modify, for example: Calle Largo, Calle Lejano , or Calle Contento . This error may be due in part to the English tendency to reduce all unaccented final vowels to schwa and in part due to the fact that Spanish adjectives are listed in dictionaries in their masculine forms only.
Some proper nouns and proper adjectives that have given rise to widely used expressions are normally written with a lower-case letter; examples include cardigan, boycott, sandwich, platonic love, quixotic .
As far as grammar is concerned, the simplistic syntax and the exceptional preponderance of nouns and verbs (with an accompanying heavy reliance on conversion) are obvious and enduring.
Could the thoughts of the estranged Royal Couple occasionally turn to an interesting series of collective nouns that apply to their circumstances?
Even some of Vance's proper nouns hint strongly at the existence of daily words: Universal Pancomium, the name of a large boat, suggests a more generalized category of encomium; reading Dylas Extranuator (a spaceship) compels us to ask what extranuate might mean—perhaps strain in wonder?
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