Example sentences for: nouns

How can you use “nouns” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But historical background offers little help in the management of Safire's syndrome, because criteria for correct use of apostrophes and s 's for proper nouns ending in s are lacking.

  • Other sources are not quite so outspoken; Merriam-Webster dictionaries maintain that proper nouns are usually capitalized in English.

  • Is aggression the same as aggressiveness , or, on the other side of the spectrum, is passivity the same as passiveness ? The first is more the state, the second more the behaviour--but how about scarcity and scarceness ? One runs into the same problem with the - ing gerund versus the - ation nouns: which sounds better, implementing or implementation, ratifying or ratification?

  • Thus, we can see at a glance that, for example, the highest mortality again appeared in the new noun compounds, where 28% of the deletions were noun compounds, whereas the only variant form was tabbouli . The deletions consisted of 134 nouns, 16 adjectives, 12 verbs, and 2 affixes.

  • Many translations into English of the nouns le con and la queue, for example, grate.


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