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:
The words Jane, Italy , and February are three examples of what we usually refer to as proper nouns--those individual nouns that refer primarily to people, places, and time periods and that are generally written with an initial capital letter,
If adjectives soften ethnic terms, nouns can harden them.
The singular is forceps ; the plural forceps , or rarely forcepses . Not like some other usually plural nouns, scissor hold or cut , a wollen trouser , maybe even a lace-trimmed panty , but no sort of “forcep”!
If we have proper nouns and proper adjectives, can we not have proper verbs, too?
However, The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (1993), does offer comfort and guidance to the perplexed, proclaiming that Most proper nouns including most names ending in sibilants take 's as in Kansas's, Burns's poems, Marx's theories, Berlioz's opera, and Ross's lane.