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	Noun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A mass noun is a noun that cannot combine with numerals or quantifiers (examples: "one", "two", "several", "every", "most",...) or with grammatical number, i.e.
		It is often thought that a mass noun is a type of common noun that represents a substance not easily quantified by a number.
		Some words function in the singular as a count noun and, without a change in the spelling, as a mass noun in the plural: she caught a fish, we caught fish; he shot a deer, they shot deer; the craft was dilapidated, the pier was chockablock with craft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noun (776 words)

	What Is A Noun?
		A common noun is the opposite of a proper noun.
		A concrete noun is the opposite of a abstract noun.
		A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/nouns.html (1996 words)

	Common noun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Common noun (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing).
		Common nuisance (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large.
		Common prayer, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use.
	dictionaries.cc /Common_noun (1539 words)

	Grammar Guide
		Nouns in the Latin language and the Romance languages which stemmed from it could easily be identified by their endings, such as -a or -o.
		The noun tycoon was obtained from the Japanese, shampoo from the Finnish, and stampede from the Spanish.
		A writer or speaker should always avoid using nouns in a way that confuses his or her audience and should try to use the most specific and most concrete noun in every instance: a fence as opposed to a barrier, an earthquake as opposed to a disaster, a cardiologist as opposed to a doctor, etc.
	www.geocities.com /rwb7uncp/guide.htm (1378 words)

	Noun -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A noun, or noun substantive, is a (A unit of language that native speakers can identify) word or (An expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb) phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality.
		Nouns can be substituted by (A function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase) pronouns (e.g.
		A (A noun that does not form plurals) mass noun is a type of common noun that represents a substance not easily quantified by a number.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/noun.htm (686 words)

	Mass noun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In English grammar, a mass noun (also uncountable noun or non-count noun) is a type of common noun that cannot be modified by a number without specifying a unit of measurement; thus mass nouns have singular but no plural forms.
		A "laundry" as a count noun is an establishment which washes clothes, also known as a laundromat or laundrette.
		A mass noun can be preceded by a measure word, as in "ten pieces of furniture" or "a gallon of water".
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mass_noun (830 words)

	Common noun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pseudo Noun Incorporation in Niuean Paper exploring differences in the normal understanding of noun incorporation in which the nominal element is a head and Niuean where instead it is a noun phrase.
		Proslava Tutorial and Dictionary A language with common Slavic word stock and syntax containing main features of all Slavic languages such as substitution of word order for noun articles, perfective and imperfective aspects, synthetical type of morphology.
		Common Cause Common Cause is a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying organization promoting open, honest and accountable government.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Common_noun.html (459 words)

	Database system and matching method between databases - Patent 5210868
		The unit 104 infers a similar common noun to the separated common noun as the separated matching key having vagueness by using a synonym rule which is stored in the synonym rule 105.
		A common noun synonym and a proper noun synonym are inferred based upon the common and proper noun parts by the units 104 and 106, respectively.
		It should be noted that, as the structure of this common noun dictionary 103, there is such a structures that common nouns are merely arranged, or that the commonly usable character substrings are linked to one another by a dictionary type pointer.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5210868.html (6347 words)

	Annotation guide for the Danish Dependency Treebank: Nouns
		Nouns can be subdivided into common nouns, proper names, and pronouns (which include cardinal numerals and special pronouns like "at" (infinitival "to" and complementizer "that") and "om" ("whether")).
		Common nouns are inflected in number and definiteness, proper names are inflected in number (although this is somewhat rare), and pronouns do not exhibit any systematic inflection at all.
		The most common counter-argument against the DP analysis is a semantic intuition that the construction should be headed by the common noun rather than the pronoun (ie, "function" words aren't considered important enough to be heads).
	www.id.cbs.dk /~mtk/treebank/nounsT.html (6880 words)

	The United States Government Printing Office Style Manual 2000
		A common noun or adjective forming an essential part of a proper name is capitalized; the common noun used alone as a substitute for the name of a place or thing is not capitalized.
		If a common noun or adjective forming an essential part of a name becomes separated from the rest of the name by an intervening common noun or adjective, the entire expression is no longer a proper noun and is therefore not capitalized.
		A common noun used with a date, number, or letter, merely to denote time or sequence, or for the purpose of reference, record, or temporary convenience, does not form a proper name and is therefore not capitalized.
	www.gpoaccess.gov /stylemanual/2000/chapter_txt-3.html (2325 words)

	Grammar Guide -- GrammarStation.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Common nouns can be defined as a name commonly given to every person or thing of the same class or kind.
		When a common noun is used, the user is saying that the person or thing the user is talking about can be placed in a set with others that are similar with the noun in some way.
		A countable noun is a noun which has both a singular and a plural form.
	www.grammarstation.com /servlet/GGuide?type=NNMDLLI (885 words)

	NOUN PACKET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Common nouns refer to any one of a class or a group of persons, places, or things.
		A common noun is capitalized if it is a part of a proper noun word group; in other words, it has lost common identity and has become part of something specific.
		If the collective noun indicates a group that is in disagreement or that is acting as separate individuals instead of acting in one accord, then the collective noun is plural.
	www.readbygrade3.com /noun.html (4630 words)

	Nouns and Articles: Categories of Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A common noun that can be counted (one, two, three, and so on) can be used after a word like many or several.
		A common noun that in a specific context is not used with words expressing quantity and has no plural form: furniture, advice, information.
		The type of a common noun is closely linked to the article that precedes it: a, an, the, or no article at all.
	college.hmco.com /english/raimes/digitalkeys/keyshtml/nouns_a2.htm (135 words)

	Writing Tips: Sentence Builder - Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nouns that end in a consonant followed by a y are made plural by dropping the y and adding ies.
		Nouns that end in a vowel followed by a y are made plural by adding s.
		Nouns that end in f or fe drop the f or fe and add ves.
	www2.actden.com /writ_den/tips/sentence/nouns.htm (160 words)

	Common Logic Controlled English
		The use of lambda expressions in conceptual graphs enables an entire noun phrase, including the quantifier and all the modifiers of the noun to be translated to a single concept node.
		Following is a declaration of each noun, the predicate or relation that represents it in FOL, and an SQL query that associates the FOL relations with some selection from the database.
		The previous declaration statements defined nouns and names that were suffcient to describe the two structures of blocks and pyramids; no verbs, adjectives, or prepositions are needed.
	www.jfsowa.com /clce/specs.htm (8005 words)

	Nouns
		A proper noun is the name or title of a particular person, place, thing or idea; it always begins with a capital letter.
		A third kind of compound noun consists of two words often used together even though they are not joined.
		A fourth kind of compound noun is a proper name that consists of more than one word.
	danaelayne.com /Nouns.htm (400 words)

	The Parts of Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A common noun is any-one of a class of people, places, or things.
		A collective noun is common noun whose singular form names a group of people or things.
		A pronoun is a substitution for a noun.
	library.thinkquest.org /2947/partsofspeech.html (342 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary - common noun
		noun designating member of class: a noun that refers to any of a class of people or things, e.g.
		"singer" and "place," as distinct from a proper noun, e.g.
		"Lennon" or "Washington." Common nouns can be preceded by words that modify their meaning, e.g.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861688082/common_noun.html (83 words)

	Teaching Noun Clauses in the ESL Classroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A noun clause is a dependent clause that works like a noun.
		Because of the variety of noun clauses, today I'm only going to try to discuss noun clauses as they are used as objects.
		In most cases, any tense of the verb in the noun clause is grammatically acceptable, but it often changes the meaning in ways that are too subtle to teach to your students.
	bogglesworld.com /askthomas_noun_clause1.htm (854 words)

	Noun @ Meri English
		A proper noun is the special name given to a particular person,place or thing.
		A common noun is name given in common to a person place or thing of same kind or class.
		A Collective noun is name given to a number or collection of persons or things taken together and spoken of as one whole.
	www.gameroom.com /sunil/my/mE1.html (164 words)

	Scavenger Hunt
		Nouns are words used to name a person, place, thing, or idea.
		Ask the people to whom these common nouns apply (who are NOT in your group) to write their own names (proper nouns) in their best, neat cursive handwriting in the proper noun column.
		Remember to use appropriate capitalization to indicate whether the noun is proper or common.
	www.puc.edu /Faculty/Rosemary_Dibben/English10/Grammar/scavenger.html (467 words)

	Different types of noun
		Common nouns are the names of things in general, such as cat, dog, road, city, skirt, colour etc.
		A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing, such as Kate, Billy, Manchester, Thames, Rover etc. All proper nouns start with a capital letter.
		A collective noun is the name given to a group of things, for example a flock of birds or a herd of cows.
	www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk /nouns.shtml (223 words)

	Spanish Grammar: relative pronoun - que
		Relative pronouns are called "relative" because they are "related" to a noun that has previously been stated.
		One way to view relative pronouns is to recognize that they combine two sentences that share a common noun.
		The most common relative pronoun, and the one used in the previous two examples is "que".
	www.studyspanish.com /lessons/relproque.htm (192 words)

	Common Noun Consulting - What We Do (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Common Noun Consulting has shown itself to be effective within the computer industry in mediating between producers and consumers of highly technical information products, able to manage the dynamics of interaction between software development, sales and marketing, and end user communities.
		But it is a crucial part of the job, often the part that holds together the seemingly unrelated and cross-purposed people and things that define your project.
		It is a part that Common Noun excels at.
	www.commonnoun.com /what_we_do.htm (357 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - common noun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A noun (Latin nomen, “name”) is usually defined as a word denoting a thing, place, person, quality, or action and functioning in a sentence as the...
		All nouns in Spanish have gender—either masculine or feminine.
		In general, a noun’s ending indicates its gender.
	encarta.msn.com /common+noun.html (135 words)

	kgrammesgrammar
		Common noun: refers to any person, place, thing, or idea; no capitalization is necessary
		Once you are done, highlight the box underneath the paragraph to see if you have identified all of the general nouns.
		The young girl was biking down the street in her hometown when she saw a car speed past her at a very rapid pace.
	www.beth.k12.pa.us /schools/wwwclass/kgrammes/kgrammesgrammar.htm (628 words)

	The Common Noun
		The important thing to remember is that common nouns are general names.
		Proper nouns, those that name specific things, are the class of nouns that require capitalization.
		waiter = common noun; Simon = proper noun.
	www.chompchomp.com /terms/commonnoun.htm (163 words)

	Common/proper noun functions of theos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At 8:04 AM -0700 5/27/00, John Wilking wrote: >The noun theos appears to function both as a common noun (a title), and as a >proper noun.
		As a proper noun it appears to be used only as the Father's >name in the NT.
		You're talking about English nouns rather than Greek ones--with reference to nouns used both as terms for categories or roles--agent nouns--and as proper names.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-greek/2000-May/011835.html (200 words)

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