Words similar to nouns

Example sentences for: nouns

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It is used to describe compounds composed of an adjective and a substantive so as to form, principally, a possessive adjective, like bahuvrihi itself; it also forms a compound that is different grammatically from its head member and, particularly, plurals that function as singular nouns, as in lazy-bones, sly-boots .
I can hear him declaring firmly, Nouns are nouns and should not be wrenched into verbs.
Though, personally, I am not enamored of Chomskyan grammar, despite its occasional departures from traditional terminology, nouns and adjectives are still nouns and adjectives.
Fowler noted the problem favoring s 's but made no specific reference to the conversion of proper possessive nouns to adjectives; Strunk and White affirmed the propriety of s's , and Gowers, in The Complete Plain Words , prefers s's , a choice of some importance because his father, the British neurologist Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915), is remembered for his column, disease, fasciculus, sign, solution, syndrome, and tract by Dorland.
His love of the Romance languages incited a highly subversive orthographic innovation: the elimination of capital letters on German nouns.