A Word, Please: Of adjectives and noun phrases. By June Casagrande . May 17, 2013 7:47 PM PT . Share; Share via Close extra sharing options. Facebook; X; Email; Copy Link URL Copied! Print; ...

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 ...

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.

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… ...

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 ...