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Homophones words Posted on 2011-05-09 19:35:50
Some examples of homophones words
ad/add aloud/allowed alter/altar ate/eight beat/beet blue/blew break/brake buy/by/bye cell/sell cent/scen...List of homophones Posted on 2011-05-09 19:33:46
A list of English homophones.
1. accessary, accessory
2. ad, add
3. ail, ale
4. air, heir
5. aisle, I"ll, isle
6. all, a...Always singular nouns Posted on 2011-05-07 19:07:20
Examples of nouns that always are singular:
water
wine
rice
music
coffee
advice
flu
air
sugar
tea
anger
knowledge
weather
furniture...Possessive nouns Posted on 2011-05-07 19:05:19
A possessive noun is one which is possessed by a proper noun (name of person, place or animal) in a phrase.
Examples of possessive nouns:
...Hyphenated nouns Posted on 2011-05-07 19:02:24
Some "compound nouns" are hyphenated nouns. There are three forms of compound words:
- The closed form, in which the words are melded toget...Cocrete and abstract nouns Posted on 2011-05-07 19:00:39
All things that are concrete you can touch:
dog cat sofa toast cheese
More examples of concrete nouns: dirt, rock, apple, penicl, table, per...Collective nouns Posted on 2011-05-07 18:57:39
Examples of collective nouns (list):
herd of antelope, army of ants, colony of ants, swarm of ants, shrewdness of apes, flange of baboons,...Concrete nouns Posted on 2011-05-07 18:47:51
Any noun that you can experience with at least one of your five senses is a concrete noun.
Some examples:
guitar, soup, house, pipe, cigar...Male and female nouns Posted on 2011-05-07 18:45:22
Female Animals:
Cow
Sow
Hen
Mare
Dame
Male animals:
Bull
Boar
Rooster
Stallion
Gelding
Sire
Female persons:
Grandmother
Godmother
Aun...Proper nouns and common nouns Posted on 2011-05-07 18:41:46
Every noun can further be classified as common or proper. A proper noun has two distinctive features:
1) it will name a specific item
2) i...Nouns start with m Posted on 2011-05-07 18:37:13
money, monkey, marshmallow, milk, Monday, macaroni, machine, mackerel, macrame, miracle, mill, mime, mile, mint, myth, myriad, mug, mud, mul...Gender Nouns Posted on 2011-05-07 18:35:58
The feminine can be formed:
1. By adding "ss" to the masculine (sometimes with other slight changes):
MASCULINE FEMININE
actor actress
Bar...Much and many Posted on 2011-05-01 14:04:49
Much is used with non count nouns (always in the singular). Many is used with count nouns in the plural.
Much and many are not often used, ...Enough Posted on 2011-05-01 14:01:19
Enough is a quantifier that implies a sufficient quantity; it is used in affirmations, negations and questions.
Examples of enough:
We can...Several and a number of Posted on 2011-05-01 13:59:40
Several and a number of imply "more than one, but less than a lot". They are not usually used in negative or interrogative structures, only...