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Parts-of-speech : nouns - Coggle Diagram
Parts-of-speech : nouns
can be formed by
conversion = assigning a different word class to a word
adding a prefix
compounding = combining two words/stems
can be
singular
plural
with a different inflectional ending (-s)
no gender but
metaphorical gender for
vehicles
"she
animals and babies when the sex is unknown
"it"
hurricanes with female names
"she"
3 binary distinctions
common vs proper
concrete vs abstract
countable vs uncountable
syntactic characteristics
may be preceded by
a determiner
an adjective
may be premodified by other nouns