For example, in “A herd of gazelles is/are on the savanna,” you have two nouns: the head word in this noun phrase is the collective “herd,” which could take a singular verb.

Sofya Polyakov and Edward Boatman, right, founders, with Scott Thomas, of The Noun Project. Around 150 years ago an etymologist named James Murray initiated a massive crowdsourcing project: the ...

But when the noun’s singular form ends in S, that’s when pretty much anyone can get into trouble. ... For example, the Los Angeles Times does not distinguish between proper and generic nouns.

There are lots of English language words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.; A baseball bat and the nocturnal animal bat are good examples of a "homonym." An airy wind and "to ...

New word: Entertainment (noun) Adding a suffix can mean the class of the word remains the same but the meaning of the new word changes. For example: Root/Base word: quest (noun) Suffix: -ion. New ...

By contrast, no language loads up nouns in this way. While we hear a lot about how a language spoken by many Inuit, Inuktitut, supposedly has a huge number of words for “snow” (they don’t ...

Q: I was taught that the possessive should be used before nouns ending in “ing.” For example, one would say, “your laughing ruined the mood,” rather than “you laughing… ...

Most plural nouns follow this simple rule and these words are easy to spell. Remember that adding an apostrophe ‘s’ does not make a plural noun. For example: ...

Plural means more than one and a noun is a word used to identify something. So, plural nouns are nouns that are more than one, for example, ‘birds’ is the plural of ‘bird’ and the word ...

Again, it's a bit complex, because we need to ensure that we aren't getting embedded matches (for example, matching the noun "acoustic" for the slang word "stic").