In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity...
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In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and...
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are examples of all the properties of count nouns holding for the count noun chair, but not for the mass noun furniture. Occurrence in plural. There is...
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In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific...
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Singulative number (redirect from Noun of unity)
a noun, and the noun is specially marked to indicate a single item. This is the opposite of the more common singular–plural pattern, where a noun is...
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In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent...
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English plurals (redirect from Defective noun)
transcription delimiters. English plurals include the plural forms of English nouns and English determiners. This article discusses the variety of ways in which...
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Classifier (linguistics) (redirect from Noun-classifier)
(abbreviated clf or cl) is a word or affix that accompanies nouns and can be considered to "classify" a noun depending on some characteristics (e.g. humanness,...
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Hyphen (redirect from Object–verbal noun compound)
where more is an adjective. Similarly, more-beautiful scenery (with a mass-noun) is distinct from more beautiful scenery. (In contrast, the hyphen in...
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and are used with mass nouns (uncountable nouns), and in some cases also with count nouns. For instance, in English, mud is a mass noun and thus one cannot...
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