Example sentences for: nouns

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

  • The answer is not an easy one, so before trying to put forward some ideas, let us start by looking at how similar nouns and adjectives are classed.

  • Royal Thoughts on Collective Nouns

  • 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”!

  • In one dialect of English, the plural of nouns is formed by adding [s] or [z] or [\?\], resulting in forms like [posts] [boyz] and [bus\?\s] for posts, boys and buses .

  • 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.


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