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NOUN (Meaning: of 'thingness' Combinability with: Verbs,…
NOUN
Meaning: of 'thingness' Combinability with: Verbs, adjectives, nouns, articles and other determiners, prepositions:
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Category of number
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countable
singular
- sugar;
- news;
- ics;
- diseases;
- games;
- collective;
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- possessive genitive;
- subjective genitive;
- genitive of source;
- objective genitive;
- temporal genitive;
- equational genitive;
- genitive of destination.
- personal names;
- personal nouns;
- animal nouns;
- collective nouns;
- geographical names;
- lосative nouns;
- temporal nouns;
- other nouns:
- dependent;
- independent;
- local independent genitives:
The genitive suffix is attached not to the head noun, but to the last word of a genitive phrase. It is the so-called group genitive.
The group genitive is most common with of-phrases and coordinate phrases:
ex: a minute or two’s rest
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Exclusion: people, police, cattle,
poultry, livestock, vermin.
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- voicing of final consonant
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- -en plurals (an ox - oxen)
- foreign plurals (carriculum - curricula)
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- By using totally different nouns
- By using derived nouns with masculine and feminine suffixes: -er/-or, -ess
- By using compound nouns in -man and -woman
- By using a modifier denoting sex