| 单词 | noun |
| 例句 | To clarify a remark someone made earlier, I confess that I am making up all the proper nouns. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But Toni Morrison’s is not an adjective, like red or beautiful; it’s a noun phrase in genitive case. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Put simply, a pronoun is an understudy for a noun. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Without a verb, even if it’s only suggested, there’s nothing going on, just a lot of nouns standing around with their hands in their pockets. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mrs. Granger jammed the whole day’s work into the last eight minutes, a blur of verbs and nouns and prepositions, and yes, there was another homework assignment. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The distinction between a first appearance on stage and subsequent appearances can also be marked by the use of names or indefinite nouns on the one hand and pronouns on the other. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Figuring out the mathematics of a noun can be tricky. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The comedian Jon Stewart was confused, too, because on his show he criticized George W. Bush’s “War on Terror” by protesting, “Terror isn’t even a noun!” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Write and define adjectives denoting abounding in, having the quality of, from the following nouns:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, those pictorial signs consisted mainly of numerals plus nouns for visible objects; the resulting texts were merely accounting reports in a telegraphic shorthand devoid of grammatical elements. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The other rationale is that Toni Morrison’s is an adjective, and pronouns must refer back to nouns. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The verbs are the same, but he definitely wins the prize when it comes to nouns and objects. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z TOMBSTONE: Data and media are strictly plural nouns and always take plural verbs. r.i.p. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The word belongs to the noun category, just as it always has; Sophocles did not suddenly turn into an adjective just because it is parked in front of another noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The singulars—kind of, sort of, type of, and style of—are preceded by this or that, and are followed by singular nouns: Dagtvood wears this kind of hat. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The noun phrase containing view is the subject of the third is-phrase, is not based on a lack of understanding. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Write and define nouns denoting place where from the following words:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z As a child I was taught, for example, that the words soap in soap flakes and that in that boy were adjectives, because they modify nouns. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Words don’t come with labels like “I’m a noun” or “I’m a verb.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We also find that the nouns play and mother are preceded by the words Sophocles’ and his, which have the function “determiner.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Here’s a hint: If you can substitute a noun for the ing word—departure in place of going, for example, or habit tot smoking—then treat it like a noun. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So zombie nouns do have their place in the language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But to encourage the reader to parse it as a noun phrase, he should have set up a context in which the reader indeed expects to see a noun phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But every once in a while they step out of character and take on the role of nouns. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the past I had tried my hardest to be understanding, going so far as to allow the conjugation of nouns and the use of such questionable words as whateverishly. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z By the end of the month, I'd managed to retain three hundred nouns, none of which proved to be the least bit useful. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Park addressed Shin using honorific nouns and verb endings. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In other words, how do you make a plural of a noun with several parts? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z First Rule Brother Quang says add an s to nouns to mean more than one even if there’s already an s sitting there. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On the first empty one, I write: Cerm—noun \\prm\\ the origin of something; a thing that may serve as the basis of further growth or development. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Words like jumper and hair grip and certain proper nouns like Vivian. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The noun system of English provides a writer with ways to distinguish entities the reader is being introduced to for the first time from the entities he already knows about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Then she can anticipate the categories of words that can complete it; in this case, it’s likely to be a noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For advice about making the nouns above plural, see pages 19-20. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Though nouns are often the names for people, places, and things, the noun category can only be defined by the role it plays in a family of rules. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Why don’t we use capital letters for all nouns any more? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Here’s how to use an apostrophe with . . . • possessives.To indicate ownership, add r to a singular noun or to a plural noun that does not end in s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I lacked even a basic knowledge of grammar, though I was learning, beginning with nouns and moving on to prepositions and gerunds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Presumably Bill Clinton, who uttered the first sentence while running for president in 1992, would never have said Give I a chance, because a noun phrase next to a transitive verb is obviously accusative. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Gender, a grammatical term for “kind,” describes the ways some languages categorize nouns and pronouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The advice to bring zombie nouns back to life as verbs and to convert passives into actives is ubiquitous in style guides and plain language laws. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Then, without warning, the third sentence shifts to the imperative mood and we are supposed to have the reader, not the nouns, forming plurals in a certain way. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I was also taught that a “noun” is a word for a person, place, or thing, which confuses a grammatical category with a semantic category. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Light verbs such as make, do, have, bring, put, and take often do nothing but create a slot for a zombie noun, as in make an appearance and put on a performance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Forgetfulness of nouns, for instance, or of numbers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For most of us, plurals get sticky mainly when they involve proper names, nouns with several parts, or words that can be either singular or plural. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If that’s not confusing enough, some singular nouns that end in s are regarded as pairs—scissors, trousers, tongs, pliers, tweezers, and breeches, for instance. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were hints of much worse things around us now like a faint odor in the air, evoked by words like “plasma” and “psycho” and “sulfa,” strange words like that with endings like Latin nouns. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. Start with the word manifest Its a verb as well as a noun. Look it up.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z All the words poured out of me, a supernova of nouns and verbs, the containers of everything, now nameless, now just there. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Write and define adjectives denoting relating to, like, or being, from the following nouns:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z A noun can be double trouble if it stands for a collection of things. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Sumerians had hit upon this phonetic principle, they began to use it for much more than just writing abstract nouns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The question: When a noun follows between or from, is it singular or plural? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a “nun,” not a “noun,” lurking inside. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A scientific noun can launch a thousand questions—and the idea of the “gene” did exactly that. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and Rollerblade. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z You’re already familiar with nouns from the animal kingdom that can stand for one critter or many: fish, deer, moose, vermin, elk, sheep, swine. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The other word, jive, is a noun, a verb, and an adjective referring to hot music or to baloney. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My confidence hit a new low when my friend Adeline told me that French children often make mistakes, but never with the sex of their nouns. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It’s masculine, too, in French, not just a plain noun like it is in English. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Repeating a name or an indefinite noun can confuse readers by making them think that someone new has walked onto the stage. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s simpler to say that sometimes a noun can modify another noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was just a failure of the traditional grammarians to distinguish categories from functions that blinded them to the realization that a preposition could take a clause, not just a noun phrase, as its object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One way to make a noun possessive is to add s; another way is to put of in front of it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The last syllable is different in the verb and the noun. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When two words are combined to describe a noun, sometimes you use a hyphen between them and sometimes you don’t. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that they are on stage, he switches to a definite noun phrase: the herons head. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It describes a thing, so it can usually be found right in front of a noun: “I just love my everyday diamonds, ” said Magda. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That sentence in turn belongs to a clause which spells out the content of the noun view. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I remember so well loving Addison’s use of capital letters for nouns. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting ambiguity was resolved by the addition of a silent sign called a determinative, to indicate the category of nouns to which the intended object belonged. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One I is enough for both the noun and the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It survives a kind of life where pamper is a noun, not a verb. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But Sister Redempta had said that the word was a verb as well as a noun. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z When I was younger, Mom pasted dozens of words on it, but I was still limited to only a handful of common nouns, verbs, and adjectives, some names, and a bunch of smiley faces. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z There’s no need to wave a magic wand over the noun soap and transmute it into an adjective just because of what it’s doing in this phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It indicates a possessive in a singular noun: The boy’s hat The First Lord of the Admiralty’s rather smart front door This seems simple. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z If you don’t want to give the rest of the world a headache, use impact only as a noun. interface. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now we can see why the word Sophocles’ shows up in the tree with the category “noun” and the function “determiner” rather than “adjective.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I would look up a word in the lexicon only to forget it when I turned to write it down; my noun cases, my verb forms, had left me utterly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Like is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in crazy like a fox or like a bat out of hell. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Write and define nouns expressing diminutives of the following nouns:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z The term, “relocation” abbreviated, was used as noun and verb to describe the nomadic lives of white-collar families employed by global companies. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Once you have learned that in English the article comes before the noun, you don’t have to relearn that order every time you acquire a new noun, such as hashtag, app, or MOOC. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s in the third person, and filled with zombie nouns like Extreme Exposure and passives like are more easily affected. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z By these tests, terror is certainly a noun: the terror, terror of being trapped, the terror’s lasting impact. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A restrictive relative clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, often because it pinpoints the referent of the noun from among a set of alternatives. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But it takes time to match every noun and verb, sort all the tenses, remember all the articles, set the tone for every s. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Neighbors would drop by while Hugh was off at the hardware store, and I'd struggle to entertain them with a pathetic series of simple nouns. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “But I think you’re both wrong. People are nouns, actions are verbs. Apples and oranges.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The other two are nouns as well as adjectives: epidemic refers to something widespread in a particular community or population, and pandemic to something that has spread to an entire country, continent, or beyond. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why guidelines on how to avoid legalese and other turbid professional styles call for using first- and second-person pronouns, inverting passives into actives, and letting verbs be verbs rather than zombie nouns. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z What other part of speech than a noun is "rupture"? Ans. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish, when I was back in that French class, that I had connected the conjugations, verbs, and gendered nouns to something grander. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I explain that verbs in Arabic form roots that create trees of nouns and word structures. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Add the apostrophe alone to a plural noun that ends in s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Take this entry on noun plurals, from, of all books, The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: Nouns derived from foreign languages form plurals in different ways. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For all intents and purposes they may as well be nouns; in this example, going may as well be the noun departure. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The rules are pretty straightforward: an adjective is put down, like maybe “awkward,” and everyone has to throw down a noun that best fits. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z When a noun is repeated in quick succession, readers may assume that the second mention refers to a different individual and fruitlessly scan the stage for him. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z What is the noun corresponding to the adjective "inimical"? Ans. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Half the population of Epiphany is convinced that Luke Potter will become so famous that his name will become a noun like Kleenex or Coke. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z To start with, the fact that like is a preposition, which typically takes a noun phrase complement, does not mean that it may not take a clausal complement as well. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If neither is followed by a noun, then so is nor: Oscar eats neither peas nor broccoli. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the stumbling blocks inherent in learning this language, the greatest for me is the principle that each noun has a corresponding sex that affects both its articles and its adjectives. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When she reads the word the, for example, she figures she must be hearing a noun phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The $64,000 question: How do we figure out whether an ing word is acting like a verb or like a noun? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The first question to ask yourself is whether the description comes before or after the noun. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The sentence sounds much better with the noun in between: “Your furniture and mine can’t live together. ” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He introduces them with an indefinite noun phrase: Great Blue Herons live. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She moved through our classroom as coolly as if Khesanh were just a proper noun in a sentence that needed to be diagrammed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Tell me, Henry, if I put one of these bullets right into your head and got your brains all over Kelton and his MoonPie, would I be a noun or a verb?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The plurals—kinds of, sorts of, types of, and styles of—are preceded by these or those, and are usually followed by plural nouns: Mr. Dithers hates those kinds of hats. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Because a count noun cannot stand on its own—you can’t say Daughter cooked dinner— and a modifier doesn’t help; Beautiful daughter cooked dinner is still bad. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The list also includes nouns, as in “of gravity,” “of entropy” and “of nature.” Art Review: ‘Richard Serra: Early Work,’ at David Zwirner 2013-04-18T21:06:14Z “Distribution” is a noun, and syntactically it belongs with “shipment,” also a noun, as an object of the preposition “for.” A Few Words About That Ten-Million-Dollar Serial Comma 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z That marvellously untranslatable noun, connected to a word for flatulence, connotes a crudeness that induces nausea and disgust. Trump Versus Clinton, According to Aristophanes 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z So while nouns are comforting, firm and fixed and solid, it seems to me that verbs are more honest. Maybe the word “rapist” is a problem: The utility of nouns and verbs, or accepting who we are and what we do 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It can be tempting to compare Mège to other people who have inhabited the word “muse,” but the noun doesn’t quite fit her. The Opposite of a Muse 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Whether using fika as a noun or a verb, implied is that some sort of sweet treat will accompany the coffee. Shopping Scandinavian design in Stockholm like a local — coffee breaks included 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z There are no proper nouns, no names, few reference points other than the obsessive weight of the diary itself. Sarah Manguso's 'Ongoingness' preserves life in the pages 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The noun "snout" suggests the shape of the land, and maybe the speaker's orientation: the nose leads when you are following an instinct. Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z Wriggling insects are "like nouns", sunflowers are "poems we recite to ourselves", barges "pass in stanzas along canals". White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z It was only a singular noun, from a past participle in French, meaning “chosen”; from the same root as “to elect”. The world has become obsessed with elites 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The lack of names and other proper nouns gives the book the quality of a supernatural parable. Review | In ‘The Memory Police,’ an authoritarian government tries to erase the past 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z For dyslexic students, I always colour code the pronoun, adjectives and noun. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z The real subject was not the object but the motion, not the noun but the verb: trotting, running, walking, leaping. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z The word play became a noun meaning dramatic performance sometime in the 14th century. Do not dismiss playwrights as mere content providers 2013-06-19T07:00:00Z Far more awkward is the enthusiasm for stringing nouns together: "student population health awareness training". Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms 2011-02-05T00:05:32Z Chivers’s book is the prose equivalent, full of nouns and the simplest, least affected adjectives. On the Ground in Afghanistan and Iraq 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z And sure enough, the unmentionable noun in this play’s title carries exactly the weight of bewilderment, anger and awe with which all the characters regard one another. | 'The ___________ With the Hat': A Love Not at a Loss for Words 2011-04-12T06:30:20Z There are many, many nouns for the act of looking – a glance, a glimpse, a peep – but there's no noun for the act of listening. Walter Murch: searching for the sound of the God particle 2013-06-20T16:00:02Z Among the many aphoristic sayings in the book, there is one that I remember to this day: “We are born as verbs and not as nouns.” Han Ong on Straying into Topicality 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z It’s a writerly tic, the retro habit of referring to women by the color of their hair, but as noun rather than adjective. The Man Who Wrote Everything 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z He adored the 18 noun classes in Swahili and the negative verb forms in Estonian, both influences in his created languages. In ?Game of Thrones,? a Language to Make the World Feel Real 2011-12-11T22:17:16Z With Paper Lion Plimpton became not just a person but also an eponymous noun, joining the ranks of Captain Boycott, the Earl of Sandwich, and many others. “Plimpton!” doc tells tale of literary heavyweight 2013-05-28T20:05:00Z Its name, both a noun and a verb, sounds like a flourish, but it invokes its raison d’être with a dead-simple signifier. Switch Is the Dream Console Nintendo's Been Working Toward for Years 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It will be interesting to see what he might do with material relating more closely to his own time and place – and based on a concrete rather than an abstract noun. Longing – review 2013-03-10T00:05:34Z Russian novelist Fyodr Dostoevsky wrote in the 19th century: "It's possible to express all thoughts, feelings and even deep analytical thoughts just by saying this one noun." Russia launches swearing ban; books, films, plays risk fines 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z When he refers to “golden sings,” he’s embedding that distance in the language, bending “sings” from verb to noun in the same way that internet slang has transformed “feels.” Review: Ryley Walker Is Unsettled in a Chicago Way on ‘Golden Sings’ 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z At Salon, we put apostrophes in contractions and capitalize proper nouns. Falling into monogamy 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We add the usual noun and verb endings to them as appropriate. From baseball to beisuboru: Foreign languages steal from English too 2013-04-12T15:01:00Z The prose shifts tense queasily from past to present, and Greenfield appears innocent of the rule that a verb must agree in number with its noun. 2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield – review 2013-07-11T08:00:00Z The long sentence, the lower-case proper nouns, the low-level humour: Saramago's prose always sounds like the beginnings of a stand-up routine or a shaggy dog story. Cain by Jos? Saramago ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:02Z Second fundamental term: académie, noun, French, a depiction of a nude model, made from life by an art student mastering the rudiments of painting and drawing. ‘Rear View’ Is Rather Forward Thinking 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z But the headline addition for most observers will be the new senses for "tweet" as a verb and noun. Oxford English Dictionary adds new sense of tweet to its Big Data 2013-06-20T12:04:39Z More personally, her set of photographs depicts a dozen tortillas, each embellished with a self-identifying noun. Review | In the galleries: Printmakers’ works are anything but two-dimensional 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Nearly every other sentence contains pungent Anglo-Saxon nouns and gerunds. Two Lifetime Crooks Wait for a Missing Daughter, With Shades of Beckett 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Brexiteer noun, informal: A person who is in favor of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the European Union. Oxford's Word of the Year for 2016 Is 'Post-Truth' 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z I chose the travel-theme series and spent the next half-hour absorbing a slow build of information, from singular nouns to plural, with new verbs introduced. During self-quarantine, learn a foreign language without leaving the house 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The scripts have to dance around mentions of various orifices rather than spell them out -- wordplay gives us access to forbidden nouns, rewarding close attention with discreetly sleazy punch lines. Prime time's new age of crudeness 2011-01-17T15:01:00Z Adverbs are, in general, considered weak parts of speech, at least per Strunk and White’s controversial dictum, “Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs.” A Certain Word Is Really Getting on My Nerves 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z People were invited to weigh in, and Twitter was possessed with the possessive—or at least with the “S” following the apostrophe to form the possessive of a noun ending in a sibilant. Mary Norris’s Thoughts on Pesky Possessives 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z In the Ojibwe language, nouns are animate or inanimate; the word for stone, asin, is animate. Louise Erdrich on the Power of Stones 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z “I did a lot of dumb stuff,” she said, but used a more pungent noun than “stuff.” Sooner or Later, Zoë Kravitz Was Going to Be a Star 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Options such as “I long to,” “I need to,” and “Let me” can combine with verbs, such as “taste” or “arouse,” and, finally, nouns, such as “your lips” or “your nipples.” The Year in Stupidity 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z “Old lady” is not just an adjective married to a noun. Perspective | Let’s talk about ‘Project Runway’ stars using ‘old lady’ to describe unflattering clothes 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z In Greece, where all nouns have not two, but three possible genders, there is no official non-binary pronoun, but groups who support them suggest using “it.” Sparks fly as neutral pronoun included in French dictionary 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z By the time their journey ended Howard had “amassed a formidable vocabulary of nouns and even a rudimentary stock of verbs.” Richard Howard, acclaimed poet-translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Batuman’s search for something more from literature than “brisk verbs and vivid nouns” led her, swooning but alert, into the arms of the great Russian writers: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Babel. 2010-02-16T22:32:00Z Everywhere things are transformed into actions, and nouns become verbs: things spark, things flame, things balloon, and things roll. Fischli and Weiss: the art of humour 2012-06-05T12:03:00Z Typically, each key noun and verb in that sentence has brought a modifying friend along. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith – review 2013-07-18T11:42:26Z The nouns could be capitalized and personified as in some shoddy poem. Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z “He synthesized so much that was rumbling around loosely my mind,” said Miller, who was struck by Fuller’s remark that “I am not a noun, I seem to be a verb.” George Miller Is at the Cannes Film Festival Making ‘Furiosa’ (That’s Right) 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z But here, there's a snowball of nouns, compressing the logic of syntax to white and inescapable atmosphere. Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010-09-20T09:21:00Z For cardinal-numbers speech, in which a number is attached to an obvious noun reference — “Here are five raisins” or “Look at those two beds” — the difference was even larger. Motherlode Blog: Mothers Talk Less to Young Daughters About Math 2012-02-24T18:16:48Z In Week 1224, in one of our perennial Invite contests, the Empress presented a list of 19 nouns and phrases and asked what was the same, or different, about any two of them. Style Invitational: That movie is SO about you — ‘secret inspirations’ for films 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z “You have to look at Christian as a noun in terms of a person,” he says. Christian Music’s Moment: How TobyMac and Lecrae Conquered the Countdown 2012-09-17T14:00:32Z “Rebecca reached for her tea, careful not to spook the sleeping baby. Was spook racist when a verb as it was when a noun?” Review | A mother of two boys — one white, one black — gets a crash course in race 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z But no: instead they're just a vague, noncommital noun, reluctant to offend, inspire or pin its colours to any discernible mast. Klaxons, Liars, Editors, where's the the? 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z As she sifted through the last round of manuscripts, she began to jot down recurring nouns: moon, elms, lilac, gulley, tundra. A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z A noun, we are told as children, is a person, place, or thing. Two exhibitions explore artists’ and photographers’ portraits of their own studios 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z I use “divorce” not as a noun but as a transitive verb because, as I watched my mother in the months that followed, the divorce felt like something my father did to her. One upside to the divorce I didn’t want 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Make kids memorize poetry Topics: , , Poetry To judge by the reactions of some citizens, you’d think that Britain’s education secretary had proposed the reinstatement of Latin noun declensions and other pedagogical tortures. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z Similarly, there's the double sense of "care" - a verb with a loving undertone in "all what I care to see" and a plural noun that suggests pain and effort in "my cares avail me not". Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z It was only a short time later, 1955, that the OED cites its use as a noun, also applied to wine by an American, in J. Storms' Invitation to Wines. Don’t Judge a Wine by the Grape on Its Label 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Marriage is between one man, and any other noun. Stephen Colbert wants to do party planning for Rep. Steve King’s bizarre “lawnmower marriages” 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Creativity, happiness, history and many other nouns made the list, but the imperative was the same: to life. Coyaba performs at Dance Palace 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z One of Lorde’s favorite words to sing is “rush” — a flexible little noun that can describe a thrill, or a stress, or even the stress of feeling a thrill. Review | How do we know if Lorde is keeping it real? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Name-dropped proper nouns too often feel like a pile of signifiers one step away from being shaped into sharper observations. Lorde Opts Out on the Provocatively Subdued ‘Solar Power’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z “Scent” is a tidy noun to describe a tremendous riot of molecules volatile enough to fly up into our nasal cavities, where sensory receptors describe them to our brains. What in the World Is a $590 Scratch-and-Sniff T-shirt Doing in 2020? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z They adopt such abstract nouns as access, outreach, inclusivity and challenging. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z If that Strawberry Cough strain in the “Leafly Guide” has loosened your tongue, it would be very cool to recite a litany of the quirky collective nouns we’ve bequeathed the animal kingdom. The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Much of that conversation has centered on language: Unlike English, German has no equivalent to “they/them” for a personal pronoun, and most nouns referring to people are gendered as male or female. Bending Gender’s Rules, in Life and in German Grammar 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z They’re usually about abuses of power, but without proper nouns or politicians’ names. Off! Sings of Unfairness and Treachery in Asbury Park 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Another is the rule that “like” joins noun phrases, while “as” or “as if” is for verb phrases. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z What’s more, all the remaining words in the poem are anagrams generated from those six, except for the occasional insertion of the noun “Oulipo.” Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Like Magneto or admantium, wiki is a noun that snuck into the public consciousness without the population at large being so acutely aware of its origins. Battle of the Wikis: One comic fan’s Marvel database takes on the massive Marvel Universe site 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z In the next line, "refuse" is a shocking and unexpected noun. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z If "blind", as both adjective and noun, rules the octet, then "peace", also repeated three times, is the dominant noun of the sestet. Poem of the week: To Germany by Charles Hamilton Sorley 2012-11-14T10:20:03Z David: Same old argument, but Mad Libs-ed to take some of the proper nouns out and replace them with different names/hot-button issues. Chris Broussard doesn’t matter 2013-05-02T16:55:00Z Doors, the most used common noun, was included 67,783 times, while the most common names used in the stories were Lucy and Jack. UK children 'turn to US English' 2012-05-29T13:24:02Z A couple of seasoned competitors expressed surprise at my remarks about my opposition to the use of noun anagram indicators in last month's slip. Azed slip No. 2,126 2013-03-25T10:24:00Z There were words, of course, for widow, widower and orphan, but no noun, no adjective, for a parent who had lost a child. Sleeping giant Colum McCann awakens with new collection 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z If "right" is intended simply as an adjective, placed after the noun "grave", perhaps it could be read as a synonym for "rightful". Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z Ron Rash invests this dark, forlorn place with such spooky animus that his new novel, “The Cove,” ought to treat “Cove” as a proper noun. Books of The Times: ?The Cove,? a Novel by Ron Rash 2012-04-01T18:46:33Z Or that, at the age of thirty-eight, I still avoid using the common noun that is homophonous with my abuser’s name. The Power and Limitations of Victim-Impact Statements 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The word “domestic,” both as adjective and noun, was an almost audible subtext in Ms. Douglas’s work. Ellen Douglas, Southern Novelist, Dies at 91 2012-11-12T05:37:19Z Change the “p” sound to a “b” sound and you change not only the meaning of the noun but also the meaning of the preceding verb, she explains. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z He too is a verb, I think, and not a noun, and shows no sign of stopping. George Miller Is at the Cannes Film Festival Making ‘Furiosa’ (That’s Right) 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Back then it was a voguish noun, borrowed from French, that described the unconscious structure of an ideology or a text. With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z There’s one moment where the father of a soldier says, “I’m willing to sacrifice my son in the cause of Freedom and Humanity” — he capitalizes those nouns. Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Brexit, noun: A term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Oxford's 2015 Word of the Year Is This Emoji 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Sit in a circle, and start with two different nouns, like “time” and “desert.” How to Have a Picnic, Safely 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z While 2017 has been an awful year for women in film in most respects, it has thrown up a riot – or whatever the collective noun for mums ought to be – of complex on-screen mothers. Mother superior: it’s been a great year for on-screen mums 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The being of God is better understood as a verb than a noun. Thomas Aquinas, part 3: scripture, reason and the being of God 2012-02-13T15:24:07Z When I was learning Latin, I had a professor who was frustrated that I couldn't get all the noun declensions straight within the first week of class. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z The gritty consonants of the verb and noun register the painful jolt, but then more anaesthetic is applied. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z As for the prose, in addition to the invective/graffiti thing Irvine has Dan Brown's way with proper nouns and their qualifiers. A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt – And Why They Shouldn't by William B Irvine – review 2013-07-10T08:00:00Z Sometimes the nouns come with a qualifying word, like “Bestseller” or “Da Vinci,” but the most best-seller-y option lets the nouns stand alone. “The Bestseller Code” Tells Us What We Already Know 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Ismail Merchant’s name is already a noun: Merchant Ivory films, so-called after the production company he cofounded, are synonymous with lavish period pieces. Meals as Metaphors: Two New Movies Provide Food for Thought 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z It's not a coincidence that the verb sitting at the heart of the noun of the main government is 'conserve.' Does this government fear the arts and artists? 2011-01-31T18:01:00Z The building blocks of his world are turned into proper nouns and lose the definite article: Room, Skylight, Wardrobe. Room by Emma Donoghue and Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z The collective noun for vigilantes, cowboys and rappers dressed as clowns. Caligula with Mary Beard – TV review 2013-07-30T06:01:00Z Merriam-Webster notes that the version of "-ism" without the hyphen actually is a word, specifically "a noun meaning 'a distinctive doctrine, cause, or theory' or 'an oppressive and especially discriminatory attitude or belief.'" The suffix '-ism' is named 2015 Word of the Year by Merriam-Webster 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z For his part, Pinker shows that the problem evaporates when you understand that “like” may take a clause as well as a noun phrase as its complement. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. Is there a more unpleasant conjoining of nouns in the English language? Dance Review: Lauri Stalling?s gloATL Drafts Viewers at DMAC Center 2010-06-14T01:40:00Z Mr. Ambukdar took jalapeño, and turned the peppery noun into a sweetly scatological lament about indigestion. ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z I don't think there's any directive that you have to have a noun in your title that refers to a woman, whether it's wife, girl, sister. Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: "Am I not appropriating somebody's story?" 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Dust, along with the next two words, is a noun turned into a verb meaning either to add or to remove the thing in question. Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms 2013-04-07T20:00:00Z The act of streaming transforms music from a noun into a verb, a thing into an activity. Perspective | Our access to music is unprecedented. Why does it stress us out so much? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Many writers employ unusual verbs and adjectives; Ms. Proulx likes weird nouns. Books of The Times: A Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being 2011-01-04T17:12:56Z Absence, addressed directly in the opening line, might almost be an allegorical figure rather than an abstract noun. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z His fatigue soon prevented him from writing, and he noticed that he could not remember words, especially nouns. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s been over a decade since those Latin nouns were household words in gay life, and reading them still traumatizes. The AIDS Fight: Andrew Sullivan on a History of the Movement 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The lyrics, full of carefully deployed proper nouns, simultaneously flaunt and dissect the privileged life, while the production turns manic and kaleidoscopic, hopscotching a world of pop while listeners are distracted by sheer catchiness. The Year in Culture: 2010 Anthems: From a Kiss-Off to Jolts of Hope 2010-12-16T19:28:05Z Everything’s capitalized in case you want to think of them as proper nouns somehow, but you may also ignore the caps. Style Invitational Week 1404: Ask Backwards 39, a not-so-‘Jeopardy!’ contest 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Oversight is the noun form of two verbs with contrary meanings, “oversee” and “overlook.” Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms 2013-04-07T20:00:00Z Based on grammar alone, Tinder is making a statement: Single is a noun, a state of being, not an adjective that might apply for a short time. Analysis | Tinder and OkCupid have given up on finding you a soul mate. Their ads even admit it. 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The current iteration chooses two words from among the four thousand most commonly used nouns and then strings them together. There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z They called this verb convergence and noun convergence. ArtsBeat: Thinking Cap: Predicting Bubbles and Crashes 2011-08-02T15:24:39Z He’s just enough of an etymologist to notice that “beheading” is both a noun and a verb. Books of The Times: New-Wave Drug Dealers in Don Winslow?s ?Savages? 2010-07-07T22:18:00Z Rather, I'd be seeking to lower the author in your esteem and – by implication – boast that I'm the sort of person who knows about Italian plurals and mass nouns. A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt – And Why They Shouldn't by William B Irvine – review 2013-07-10T08:00:00Z Obscure collective nouns for animals include a “kindle of kittens,” a “murmuration of starlings” and a “WTF of platypuses.” Style Invitational Week 1314: Bill Us Now — our ‘joint legislation’ contest 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Champions of old-school grammar insist that “woman” is a noun and that it is wrong to use a noun as an adjective when the language already has a perfectly good adjective in the word “female.” Female Trouble: The Debate Over “Woman” as an Adjective 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z And it's almost a decade since annoying tech-marketing types started using "mobile" as an abstract noun, referring to the end of computing as a desktop-only affair. SXSW 2011: The internet is over 2011-03-15T08:00:03Z It’s a noun that describes a person who buys books and doesn’t read them, and then lets them pile up on the floor, on shelves, and assorted pieces of furniture. Are you a book hoarder? There's a word for that. 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Functioning as both a noun and a verb, it admonishes either way: Our life is a gift, value it. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z In fact, the analysts at Oxford University Press estimated that as of March, “coronavirus” was one of the most “frequently used” nouns in all of the English language. Oxford dictionary skips 'Word of the Year' for 2020, says 'unprecedented' year required dozens instead 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z It also becomes a metaphor for his life, his ancestors: “My race began as the sea began,/with no nouns, and with no horizon”. Beach bard 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z The second stanza homes in on the details, the adjectives well-judged and nicely arranged both before and after the noun they qualify: "Their perfect grips, each tiny steel bubble firm,/ each indentation clean …". Poem of the week: Darts by Christina Dunhill 2012-08-27T11:35:18Z Moore should be happy, but he's greedy for power: as he puts it, he wants to be a verb, not an abstract noun. Thrillers: review roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:02Z You can even use it as a noun: "I stand by my meh." The 10 best words the internet has given English 2013-04-17T09:19:32Z And it wasn’t my weird little freak of an English teacher with all his adverbs, nouns and non sequiturs. Rick Springfield’s guide to writing 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z "Lay," for example, is the most slippery of verbs – and it's a noun, too, of course, meaning a ballad or song. Poem of the week: The Bridal Morn 2012-10-08T10:58:47Z First fundamental term: Rückenfigur, noun, German, a “figure from the back,” looking away from the viewer, establishing a frontier between the picture plane and the background. ‘Rear View’ Is Rather Forward Thinking 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z In the language department, Gulliver met brilliant professors who trimmed English to nothing but nouns, and even more brilliant professors who abolished “all words whatsoever.” ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Watch: This Symbolism Does Not Compute 2014-05-05T15:16:14Z “Everyone was suddenly using the word ‘reveal’ as a noun.” When Novelists Turned to TV: Everyone Was Suddenly Using ‘Reveal’ as a Noun 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z But let Anja ruminate on the same nouns in the privacy of her bathroom, and they glow with an abiding human value. In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it’s one of the first written accounts of the noun cluster “chicken breasts” in the English language. Three Ways to a Better Chicken Breast 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z By the time morse appeared in Sir Walter Scott's 1821 novel, The Monastery, it already had a couple of accepted noun meanings: a fancy clasp for a cape and another word for walrus. 7 fake words that actually ended up in the dictionary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z When it comes to acting, particularly when I’m talking tactics, there were scenes when I had to ask Brendan, “Is this a noun or a verb?” Nick Mohammed Has Been Faking It on ‘Ted Lasso’ 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The use of "fail" as a noun to mean "failure" is attested by a couple of quotations in the OED from the 17th century. Oxford English Dictionary adds new sense of tweet to its Big Data 2013-06-20T12:04:39Z He does the shtick, learned from Goons and Hancock and Pythons and beyond, of introducing a surreal noun and making it sound funny and that's it. Bumper crop 2010-10-09T23:04:00Z You begin, while reading this volume, to fear nouns: They appear like links Mr. Leader is certain to click on and send himself down a rabbit hole. Review: Zachary Leader’s ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z But I'm more interested in the noun than its qualifying adjectives. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z “Affect” is a verb, and “effect” is a noun—except when it’s the other way around. Comma Queen: Affect vs. Effect 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z His own writing is invariably clear, his prose tautly built on nouns and verbs. Review | ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a bestseller, but its author, Walter Tevis, was hardly a one-hit wonder 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z I can’t imagine it’s unknown, but “An Exaltation of Larks,” by James Lipton, is a book on collective nouns that I read from often, and I wish more people knew about it. Lupita Nyong’o Had a Guilty Pleasure on the Set of ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The placing of compound adjectives before the noun, "… smelling of old clothes … Man!" Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z Clinton’s use of the word as a noun is rare.” Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The noun "troll", meanwhile, does refer to a wide class of monstrous Nordic creatures: a sense that has dovetailed neatly with the increasingly viciously art of trolling. The 10 best words the internet has given English 2013-04-17T09:19:32Z Also as a mass noun: the style of music or fashion associated with this movement. David Bowie Is All Over the Oxford Dictionary 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Fromsmoking jacket — the main noun was dropped and the modifier got the spotlight, a change of both word type and meaning, although the pronunciation is effectively the same. From baseball to beisuboru: Foreign languages steal from English too 2013-04-12T15:01:00Z After Nussbaum’s essay, I started noticing abstract nouns, values and personality traits “weaponized” in headlines and columns across the media spectrum. One nation, “weaponized”: What this in-vogue verb tells us about our divided culture 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z She arrives at the following collective noun: “a rothschild of rich people.” Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z It sort of debunks the romantic idea of love as something we acquire and shows it instead as a faculty we can develop – as a verb rather than a noun. I <3 you: meet the NYU professor whose love course is becoming a phenomenon 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Proper nouns, even the name of her dog, have been largely left out. Jenny Slate Wrote a Book-Shaped Thing. What Is It? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Even worse is what she conquers: the Jabberwock, the monster from the nonsensical poem by Carroll that was meant to be open to interpretation, down to its very nouns and adjectives. Movie Review: Taking the Wonder Out of Wonderland 2010-02-26T23:10:00Z When we’re evaluating books of poems, a great deal depends on which noun — books or poems — we think should be stressed. The Best Poetry of 2018 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z “Persuasion” is a noun that implies choices — ways of doing, ways of seeing — and what voices seem to whisper in your head as you decide one thing or another. Review: In ‘Persuasion,’ How to Lose Lovers and Influence People 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Jesus hates tolerance almost as much as he hates you!A billboard in the small town of Clyde, North Carolina doesn’t seem to get the difference between verbs and nouns. 10 most absurd right-wing Christian billboards 2014-05-06T11:00:00Z Boys are using nouns more precisely and creatively, which fits in with the James Bond, and Anthony Horowitz genre. BlackBerry cupcakes and Googling: new study of UK children's language 2012-05-28T16:25:20Z I can still feel the ruler on my knuckles from my sixth grade teacher, who would say: It’s a noun not a verb! Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z Lichens, in other words, “never stop lichenizing; they are verbs as well as nouns.” Whether You’re Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There’s a Fungus for That 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Also unlike English ones, Arabic nouns are only pluralized if they describe a number between 3 and 10. How to be a Muslim at NYU after 9/11 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The Thing: A woman fights covid brain fog to recall concrete nouns. Style Invitational Week 1440: It’s parody time 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z She is fond of phrases like “alphabet of ripeness,” “green clarifications,” “nouns of large clamshells” and “the dead in their sheer open parenthesis.” Review: In Jorie’s Graham’s ‘From the New World,’ Flux Is a Whirling Constant 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z How can you declare war on an abstract noun? 'Bin Laden doesn't do jokes' 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z But for those younger, Chappaquiddick — if it rings a bell at all — is just another of those proper nouns tied to some nebulous political shame: Kent State, Watergate, My Lai, Iran-contra, Whitewater. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The bottle he refers to usually holds “Kokamoe juice,” a healthy pour of vodka that he carries to help loosen those nouns and verbs. Rapper’s delight 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Seidel, who turns 85 this week, grew up wealthy in St. Louis, and the nouns that populate his poems include old prep schools, Hermès briefcases, Savile Row tailors, grand hotels, elite restaurants. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Blended with Hemingway's journalism training and the tenets of Pound's Imagism, this results in prose that deals with its subject in short, simple sentences mostly comprised of nouns and verbs. A brief survey of the short story part 34: Ernest Hemingway 2011-07-15T10:54:43Z There were all sorts of proper nouns conspiring against him. I f*cked a Republican on Thanksgiving 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Like the noun “God,” the word “great” is plainly insufficient. Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z As often, in this sonnet, abstract nouns are favoured to good effect, giving the reader space in which to translate them into imagery. Poem of the week: Sonnets from the Portuguese, No 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2010-05-24T14:28:00Z No sense trying to diagram his sentences: He drops prepositions at will and turns nouns into adverbs. New Albums by Riff Raff, Black Bananas and Phox 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z For the record, the word “greenhorn” occurs twice in the book as a common noun, applied to someone else. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z I said, 'can you just read out the nouns to me?' Imogen Stubbs hits out at mumbling actors 2013-06-22T11:26:42Z Comeback: noun, return to big-screen acclaim in unlikely project for vilified Aussie. The most exciting biopics of 2017 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z And as she speaks it, an adjective acquires the weight of a noun, while a season is somehow transformed into a pervasive state of mind. Review: An Autumnal Patti Smith Remembers Summer in ‘Words and Music’ 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Until fairly recently, the male noun was always the default choice. Bending Gender’s Rules, in Life and in German Grammar 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Is it any wonder that Dickens, that cash-strapped father of 10, was so crazy about “pinch” as noun, verb — even name? David Quammen Turns Tough Science Into Page-Turning Pleasure 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The problem is that most of the words are the same word, a noun and verb that begins with "F" and ends with "K". Rewind TV: Vicious; The Job Lot; Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian; The Repo Man – review 2013-05-04T09:45:01Z I was reading it initially as two adjectives and a noun, and I think now it's three nouns. What comedian Pete Holmes knows about the self and love, and self love 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z I was hard-pressed to find many nouns that did not arrive mansplained with an unnecessary adjective. Alan Moore’s sprawling new epic, ‘Jerusalem’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Not a mother, and not one to mother, Boulder ends up planting roots in the space between the noun and the verb. She Is a Rock; She Is an Island 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Well, hold the front page for that confluence of adjective and noun! New band of the day – No 1,305: Gin Wigmore 2012-07-10T16:43:59Z Occasional nouns escaped her, proper names eluded, anecdotes folded up in the middle, broke in half and reversed direction as she disembarked one train of thought and boarded another. Solving the Many Mysteries of What Became ‘Carol’ 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Collins wrote in longhand on white printer paper or yellow legal pads, her output suggesting that she did not agonize over each noun and verb. Jackie Collins, Novelist Who Wrote of Hollywood’s Glamorous Side, Dies at 77 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z "Laureate", because of its common usage, is understood better, but as it's actually an adjective describing the noun "poet", it is, come to think of it, itself rather a foosty antique construction. Makar's a muckle of an honour 2011-01-25T10:39:43Z Fans of collective nouns know that it’s a murder of crows, a wisdom of wombats, and a coalition of cheetahs, but what do you call a gathering of Neil Youngs? Watch Neil Young Perform With 'Neil Young' on 'The Tonight Show' 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The precision which has noted proper nouns and bus numbers now records the pre-decimal prices of the toys – and, again, numbers share the potency of the poem's quietly-measured diction. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z The project’s companion book opens with a playful riff on a dictionary definition that basically omits all the nouns. Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Concerted, orchestrated interaction; there's a reason why bits of those first two words have become blessed as nouns. Sherlock; Dispatches: Britain's Witch Children; Orchestra United 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z This meteorological blitzkrieg is most active from December through February, a pattern that has spawned the noun “Japanuary” among powder chasers worldwide. The slopes, the powder and the prices make Japan a worthy ski trip 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z It effortlessly and authentically sketches scenes of ordinariness, helping a viewer see that people living on the South Side do not exist merely to become the nouns in tomorrow morning’s bad-news headline. Review | ‘The Chi’ is best when it gives life to a community known mostly for its killings 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z Some people, she explains, produce complex noun phrases and simple verb phrases; others produce complex adverbial phrases, and so on. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Gendered languages like French are seen as a particular hurdle for advocates of non-binary terms as all nouns are categorized as either masculine or feminine, unlike in English. Sparks fly as neutral pronoun included in French dictionary 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Clinton would use “deplorable” in statements when she was secretary of state, but as an adjective, not a noun. Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ speech shocked voters five years ago — but some feel it was prescient 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Instead, I stumbled on that town in Belgium where, I learned, the common noun originated. Going to a spa? Try the original one, in Belgium. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Instead of the artist, democracy has the Zivilizationsliterat — an unwieldy German compound noun translated as “civilization’s literary man.” Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z I spoke to five directors who worked with her and they threw around nouns like maturity and intelligence and strength and dignity and humanity and authenticity and, in Mr. Sullivan’s words, “a wonderful simplicity.” Joan of Arc, Superstar? Not to the Woman Playing Her 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Then she'd smirk, or sometimes laugh, and say, "Of course not", then tell us what declension the noun was. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z Over time, Camino becomes a noun, verb and state of mind. ‘Walking the Camino,’ a Documentary by Lydia B. Smith 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Jesse Armstrong writes Greg in such a way that he becomes a concept as well as a character, an inanimate noun and a verb. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z What I'm not clear on is whether Claudel is deliberately trying to create a kind of decaying trash-heap prose – a prose where straightforward nouns are attacked by hideous, nonsensical growths, corrosive metaphors and similes. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z I was remarkably drawn to this snake oil salesman who used increase more often as a noun than a verb. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z Lists are so effortlessly captivating that one almost resents their casual magic, by which any collection of three or more nouns becomes a poem. Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren, edited by Richard Mabey 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z Fair enough, but the point about pronouns is that they replace nouns, and thus trade the specific for the generic — so they will probably catch on only when they are inconspicuous. English’s Pronoun Problem Is Centuries Old 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z She hasn’t forgotten her friend Jacob calling her a romancière, the patronizing feminine form of the French noun for novelist. Review | A woman reconstructs her past with the help of an old journal in ‘Memories of the Future’ 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z To quote the late Alec Robins in his book originally entitled Teach Yourself Crosswords, 'it is only rarely accurate to use a single noun to indicate an anagram'. Azed slip No. 2,126 2013-03-25T10:24:00Z You feel the relish of these nouns in your mouth and ear, and how for Mitchell these catalogues are little celebrations of abundance, life brimming over, language edging into music. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z It's such an eclectic list, it's difficult to find a noun that applies to everything on it other than "things". David Mitchell on new World Heritage sites 2011-03-27T00:05:36Z “I was,” Thorpe attempts to explain, “using a generic noun in an imperative clause.” ‘A Very English Scandal’ Review: Sex, Intrigue and Bunnies 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The counter-argument, from the grammatical standpoint, is that nouns morph into adjectives all the time: a “manservant” is a male servant; the “autumn equinox” sounds better than the “autumnal equinox.” Female Trouble: The Debate Over “Woman” as an Adjective 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z He tallied its appearances in the Schubert and Beethoven songs, as a noun and a verb, and noted that it figures in the finales of both “An die ferne Geliebte” and “Schwanengesang.” Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z "A good read" is now considered the highest recommendation, though the phrase is entirely non-descriptive and reduces a once purposive and active verb to a meek and passive noun. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Between First Man, Beautiful Boy, Boy Erased and The Old Man & the Gun, Oscar-bait films with singular, male-referencing nouns in their titles are in season. Boys on film: what we can learn about masculinity from Hollywood 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Aravena sees it as the irreducible limit of what a chair can be, the moment when the noun "chair" becomes the verb "to sit". When is a chair not a chair? 2010-04-19T12:12:00Z The noun for that kind of person is “refugee” - a status that puts a whole different spin on their presence here. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z "Vroom" is his favorite adjective, noun and verb. 'Hopscotch,' dubbed the 'asphalt opera,' hits the streets of L.A. 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Third fundamental term: contrapposto, noun, Italian, a pose in which the body’s weight rests on one foot, resulting in a dynamic composition that puts the hips and shoulders at odds. ‘Rear View’ Is Rather Forward Thinking 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z On metaphors: “It strikes me that a shopping cart, in general, is an ‘easy’ icon to design in that it’s a concrete noun where you don’t need to reach for a metaphor to symbolize it.” Makers: Grocery Shopping on Speed 2011-12-17T03:36:14Z Usually a noun but also an adjective, its primary, metaphorical definition is "someone who enlightens or influences others". Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z It became a noun designating those who resisted the regime, the outcasts. Recounting a Life of Disobedience 2010-05-21T11:30:00Z Varietal is not a noun, it is an adjective. Don’t Judge a Wine by the Grape on Its Label 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The word chav, if your subscriptions to British periodicals have lapsed, is a noun that essentially means “ugly prole”: loutish, tacky, probably drunken and possibly violent. Books of The Times: Get Your Bling and Adidas Tracksuit, Wayne, a British Class War Is Raging 2011-07-12T20:59:50Z Yet, we are in a crisis, where most people's primary identity is on the adjective before the hyphen, not on the collective noun, American. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z With its unbalanced nouns in apposition, the film’s title hints at the absurdity of the way human beings think. Screening Room: “Bacon & God’s Wrath” 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s because “to greenlight” was formed anew from a noun phrase, “a green light”. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Should we clarify which instance of "writing" we mean as a noun and which as a verb form, if either? Tracy Kidder and his editor on writing 2013-01-14T18:58:08Z Some of this is achieved through the abbreviation and compounding of nouns, but much of it actually repurposes the terminology of psychiatric treatment. Anorexia’s scary online empire 2012-07-28T12:00:00Z It became like this noun, or even a verb. Hasan Minhaj on the joy of making “Patriot Act” and keeping the political personal 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Yet, we are in a crisis, where most people's primary identity is on the adjective before the hyphen, not on the collective noun, American. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z In stanza 4, the three-syllable abstract nouns are heavy and sticky, and express the ingrown quality of the wife's mental imprisonment: confusion, illusion, seclusion. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z Wine is the noun, sparkling is the modifier. Sparkling wine is cause for celebration. Here are 5 tips to help you drink it up. 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The lesson: Look carefully at each Magritte painting for delicious visual details, and don’t merely itemize the nouns. ‘René Magritte: The Fifth Season’ Review: Where Day and Night Meet 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “I think that has to do with Democrat being a noun and Democratic being an adjective,” said Thibodeaux, a cognitive psychologist at Oberlin College who studies how language influences perception. ‘The Democrat Party’: Trump needles the opposition by truncating its name 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z I prefer the noun to the adjective because it highlights that my blindness does not define who I am; it is one tile in a complicated mosaic. I’m blind – but it can be a blessing in disguise 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z In "woman's heirs and assigns" the use of "assigns" as a noun summons a variety of enriching echoes: signs, assignations, designs, commands. Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z Strunk and White kept it simple: form the possessive of singular nouns by adding an apostrophe plus “S.” Mary Norris’s Thoughts on Pesky Possessives 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Before shooing them away we Google their collective noun: a "lamentation" of swans. Stars go wild in the countryside 2011-08-06T23:05:32Z His verbs suddenly aren’t planted an acre away from his nouns. William T. Vollmann’s ‘Last Stories and Other Stories’ 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z While proper nouns, such as Diogenes or the Wailing Wall, are identified, more pertinent details sometimes pass unremarked. Review | Stilted dialogue, a ludicrous plot: On the pleasures of the vintage whodunit 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The word “occult,” which can be used as a noun, an adjective or a verb, signifies something hidden, concealed from common forms of perception. If pulling weeds makes you want to pull your hair out, there’s a simple solution 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Our daily lives are packed with proper nouns of the corporate kind. ArtsBeat: The Animated Life of Seth MacFarlane, From 'Family Guy' to 'Ted' 2012-06-19T14:00:19Z “Her pursuit of Italian is about something far bigger than synonyms or dictionaries or nouns,” Benjamin Moser writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Here, we have a noun shifted to a new word as a verb: to adult. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z "And by omitting the modern English noun, it could be argued that we are also removing a connection with the medieval Welsh form of the city's name." Should some place names be written only in Welsh? 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Now the proud owner of Pantry.ai, Mr Leaman says that as pricey as the deal became, he's happy he has secured a memorable website address that has "a strong noun" within it. The race to buy AI website addresses 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z “Trailblazer” has been the noun most often used to characterize Feinstein — a trailblazer for women. Column: Straight-talking Feinstein, maligned by far left and right, was California's best 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Change a few proper nouns and Henson describes my son Mike. Letters to Sports: The Grinch that stole USC's defense 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z In Pinter’s war of words, he is yet another noun that cannot be trusted — but defining him will be a costly business. Review: Necessary verbal ruthlessness is in short supply in this rare Harold Pinter revival 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z During the early months of the pandemic, a certain company went suddenly from relative obscurity to the type of popularity that made it a noun, verb and catchphrase. Even Zoom Is Making People Return to the Office 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z When a student trying to figure out how to pluralize singular nouns asked, “No plural?” she chirped: “No! How neat, right?” She’s a Smash Hit in Latin America, Even if Her Korean Mom Disapproves 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z "Things like learning the alphabet, going over nouns and adjectives, even things you wouldn't consider - like building up the muscle strength in my arm to be able to write." Woman who couldn't read at 16 to graduate with degree 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z "People are hilarious. It's become a noun, a verb, an adjective," Kylie told Zoe Ball. Kylie Minogue scores her first top 10 hit since 2010 - but what does Padam Padam mean? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Something as basic as a noun changed form depending on location. This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z She then asked whether the word “structure” was a noun, verb, adjective or adverb. This school reopened quickly after COVID. Kids’ reading was still behind 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The noun is thought of as a good thing: a settlement of differences. Everyone says they want compromise in politics, until it happens 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs — no question is too insignificant. Exclusive secrets of the National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to identify a champion 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Or consider that the noun "loneliness" rarely appears in English prose before 1800. The COVID pandemic may be "over" — but the pandemic of loneliness is getting worse 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z The free words were all nouns that referred to the environment and its denizens, such as ra for “pig.” This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs - no question is too insignificant. Exclusive secrets of the National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to identify a champion 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z On this Memorial Day we are reminded by its origins among Black Americans at the end of the Civil War that democracy must be an active verb, not a passive noun. Hope and loss on Memorial Day: It's been a rough year since Buffalo 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z And they wrote down the first verb that came to mind for each of 31 nouns that related, more or less, to trees. Here’s How to Use Dreams for Creative Inspiration 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Bearing witness is a muscle; it is both a noun and a verb; it is something that we must exercise lest it atrophy. Jordan Neely and the burdens of bearing witness 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The bound words were nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that always existed with markers indicating a relation to other objects, events or states. This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z That may be true for most social animals, but not all animals can communicate using specific nouns or verbs to refer to present dangers. Scientists figured out chimpanzees have a rudimentary language by pranking them with snakes 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z It can’t decipher proper nouns such as names and places, and sometimes it just gets things wrong altogether. A Brain Scanner Combined with an AI Language Model Can Provide a Glimpse into Your Thoughts 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, the team’s results suggest that at least 10 to 30 quantifiably different concept variants exist for even common nouns such as penguin. People Differ Widely in Their Understanding of Even a Simple Concept Such as the Word ‘Penguin’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Bearing witness is a muscle; it is both a noun and a verb; it is something that we must exercise lest it atrophy. Jordan Neely and the burdens of bearing witness 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Just as a head, a noun, could not conceptually exist on its own, the mode and effect of an action could not be severed from the verb describing the action. This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z For decades, local Republican candidates ran on issues like abortion, immigration and national security, putting them in simple terms: “A noun, a verb and 9/11,” Mr. Biden once said in describing the phenomenon. Democrats Run on Abortion, Even for Offices With Little Say on the Issue 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z “Confessions that replace a defendant’s name with a natural-sounding noun or pronoun do not give rise to an overwhelming probability of juror disobedience,” she said. Supreme Court Considers a Mercenary’s Confession and the Confrontation Clause 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The team’s results show that even the plainest of nouns can invoke dozens of distinct concepts in individuals’ mind. People Differ Widely in Their Understanding of Even a Simple Concept Such as the Word ‘Penguin’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z How do you change your verbs into nouns, for example? How to speak Na'vi: An interview with the creator of the alien language in "Avatar" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z They need to become active and not passive, and to view democracy as a verb and not just a noun. "The View" is totally wrong about MTG 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Some see this as an expression of male dominance and support the introduction of gender-neutral noun endings, such as asterisks or the so-called "schwa", a symbol that looks like an inverted "e". Italy's language watchdog says 'no' to gender-neutral symbols 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The noun “parent” has become a verb as many people embrace the belief that perfectibility can be approximated if parents are sufficiently diligent about child-rearing. Opinion | Expensively credentialed, negligibly educated Stanford brats threw a tantrum 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Kidd and her colleagues’ findings regarding simple nouns such as penguin suggest that conceptual differences are so common that they are probably fundamental to how we think about things. People Differ Widely in Their Understanding of Even a Simple Concept Such as the Word ‘Penguin’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Its champions argue that “Latino” reinforces patriarchal norms — the –o suffix in Spanish nouns is the masculine form, the –a signifies feminine — and that the “x” is inclusive by recognizing nonbinary people. Column: I don't call myself Latinx, but the conservative war against it is ludicrous 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The title of “Close” starts out as an adjective, describing Léo and Rémi’s preternatural bond; eventually, it becomes a noun, as one chapter ends and another begins. Review | ‘Close’: A story of friendship, told in a fresh and urgently new way 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z In Italian, as in other Latin-based tongues, nouns can take a feminine or masculine form, but the plural masculine form tends to take precedence. Italy's language watchdog says 'no' to gender-neutral symbols 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z David Pharies, a Spanish language professor at the University of Florida, said another movement would replace the “o” and “a” in many Spanish nouns referring to people with an “e.” Democratic-backed Connecticut bill would ban ‘Latinx’ term 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z “If this happens with common nouns, how much worse can it be with abstract words we use to describe the big problems we’re dealing with?” People Differ Widely in Their Understanding of Even a Simple Concept Such as the Word ‘Penguin’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Everything began, cosmologists currently think, with a bang — the Big Bang; if it does not deserve to be a proper noun, what does? Opinion | The Webb Space Telescope is telling humanity the history of everything 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z On the subject of possessive apostrophes, our stylebook stipulates: “Use ‘s to form the possessive of singular nouns, proper names and nicknames ending in a sounded s: Lucas’s new movie, the boss’s secretary …” Perspective | I am obsessed with exploring the possessive apostrophe in ‘Bojangles’ 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z It focuses on feelings and nouns rather than joining words such as "for", "of", "the" and "with". The British Sign Language project stretching back 2,000 years 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z What it’s meant to be a “prophet” has changed many times, but the term has typically been used as an adjective, not a noun, Sutton said; anyone might say something “prophetic” against sin or injustice. In existential midterm races, Christian prophets become GOP surrogates 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z The local names must be Philippine proper nouns that should not exceed nine letters or three syllables, said Sheilla Reyes, a weather specialist at the country’s national meteorological service. Hurricane or Typhoon? How Tropical Cyclones Get Their Names. 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z More conceptual is “Finding Hope,” its title noun etched in white, which is designed to be mounted in what the artist calls “unlikely places” where it can be discovered and documented on social media. Review | In the galleries: Rendering art through light and space 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z There are two definitions for the noun “phantom.” Review: A British cult favorite crosses over with a blistering novel about an inscrutable mum 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z I had never heard “creative” used as a noun nor did I know that “treatment” meant anything other than a medical procedure. L.A. Affairs: I wanted romance. He made me feel weird about sex. Here's what happened 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “For John,” memorialized Walker in words that readily apply to the Empty Space itself, “play was always a verb first and a noun second.” Empty Space Theatre, founded at Pike Place Market, remembered by alumni 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Please stop saying, “I was gifted it,” or “I’m going to gift it to …” “Gift” is a noun, and gifts are given. Rant & Rave: Campers, please keep your dogs under control 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z An x ray is not only a noun meaning high-energy photon, it also is an image produced by x rays, and it has been made into a familiar verb—to be x-rayed. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z In Chapter 20, you have learned how to use different types of pronouns to substitute for nouns and noun phrases. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Factor as a Noun and a Verb: We use “factor” as both a noun and a verb. Intermediate Algebra 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z They center their whiteness by appending "white" to many terms such as "power" and dehumanize racial and ethnic groups by using plural nouns such as Blacks, Jews, and gays. Researchers ask: Does enforcing civility stifle online debate? 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z To some, lowercase-c “chautauqua” is a common noun, used as shorthand for an educational event composed of lectures, performances and/or concerts, and not tied to any particular geographic setting. What is Chautauqua? The site of the Rushdie attack has a long history. 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z With American English’s egalitarian penchant for turning capitalized proper nouns into lowercased generic nouns, in due course E-mail became e-mail. Opinion | Why English is changing faster than you can say E-mail, e-mail, email 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The noun a pronoun replaces or refers to is its antecedent. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z It’s used as a common noun and can be pluralized or singular, for instance: “you should set a passkey for your banking app.” Reminder: Passkeys are not just from Apple 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Many world languages, like French, make every noun either masculine or feminine. He Says, She Says: A Biblical Tongue Meets Gender Politics 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z German nouns referring to people and their professions have different masculine and feminine forms. German court rejects suit over gender-sensitive language 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The proscription against verbifying proper nouns, to say nothing of lowercasing them, was finally and irrevocably crushed under the inarguable fact that we all spend too much of our lives googling things. Opinion | Why English is changing faster than you can say E-mail, e-mail, email 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z All generic nouns and most indefinite pronouns are singular in meaning. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The relationship between the words that describe actions, or the nouns that represent objects, and the cerebral location of these concepts is suggested to be localized to particular cortical areas. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Yong structures “An Immense World” around the German noun umwelt, “the part of those surroundings that an animal can sense and experience — its perceptual world.” Ed Yong’s ‘An Immense World’ expands our understanding of the web of life 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Lawyers for Facebook’s parent company last week filed a brief with 19 footnotes, including one that ran longer than 150 words about how social networking could be used as a noun or a verb. Federal judge rips Meta lawyers for ‘excessive footnotes’ in defense against FTC lawsuit 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z In a country that loves compound nouns, there is, of course, a word for that process: “Vergangenheitsbewältigung,” or coming to terms with the past. The wild history of the Bavarian castle hosting this week’s G-7 summit 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z John is the original noun, or antecedent, and himself is the pronoun that points back at him. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Certain aphasias can be characterized by a deficit of verbs or nouns, known as V impairment or N impairment, or may be classified as V–N dissociation. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z "But she also knew that mother is a verb as well as a noun and mothered so many others along the way who needed love and support throughout her life," she said. Lauren Laverne pulls out of Glastonbury after her mother dies 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z So, everyone who values economic dynamism, and the freedom that enables this, should recoil from the toxic noun “stakeholder.” Opinion | Business beware, ‘stakeholder’ capitalism is parasitic progressivism 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z One recent article from state broadcaster TRT World noted that the word “turkey,” beyond its use as a proper noun, has some unflattering definitions. Turkey today, Türkiye tomorrow: U.N. okays country’s request for change 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z As their name suggests, they are not definite; they are indefinite and do not refer to specific nouns. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The lack of one or the other of these components of language can relate to the ability to use verbs or nouns. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z If you replaced “guns” in that sentence with another noun, it would be so obvious as to be banal. America’s Gun Problem 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Those who are “pop-up windowed” — the noun does double duty as a verb — are locked out of offices, supermarkets, taxis, buses and any other public spaces until they can clear their status. It’s not easy staying green: Keeping out of China’s covid lockdown 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z But actual words still carry weight, and some choice nouns and adjectives can spark the interest of a prospective buyer, according to industry professionals. A house with ‘good bones’? ‘Original details’? It could be a complete wreck. 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z They do get their meaning across, but the nouns they refer to are not known. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In the article, the qualifying phrase “who dressed as a cave man” seemed to refer to the last antecedent noun, which was “judge.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A skewed picture on abortion 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Here are some Strunk and White rules I try to follow, not always successfully: Write with nouns and verbs. Perspective | National English-teaching group loses grip on reality at terrible time 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z The definition on its website is: “woman/noun/adult human female.” Pressure to define ‘woman’ puts Democrats in a political quandary 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z By the time they arrived in Miami, “I had amassed a formidable vocabulary of nouns and even a rudimentary stock of verbs,” he said. Richard Howard, Pulitzer-winning poet and translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Concrete nouns provide a more vivid and lively reading experience because they create stronger images that activate readers’ senses. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “You might be scared of the weird alphabet or some of the cases of a single noun. But believe me, I was also scared by the multiple past tenses of English” and learned it anyway. For centuries, the Ukrainian language was overshadowed by its Russian cousin. That's changing 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z By 2012, when Oxford Dictionaries named GIF the U.S. word of the year, the term was being used as a verb, not just as a noun. Stephen Wilhite, computer programmer who created the GIF, dies at 74 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z All the nouns I’ve got to work with here — readers, listeners, viewers, fans, audience — are too passive. A heartfelt farewell from Dieter Bohn 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The issue is that companies in technology love to use proper nouns for their workers. Nope to Metamates, Googlers and Puritans 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The examples below show how concrete nouns, combined with specific details, can make writing more engaging. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “More-permanent” is not a compound adjective modifying a noun, and does not include age or numbers, or involve a prefix or an otherwise awkward combination of words. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: These captions could have been better 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z “It’s all nouns and no verbs,” he told a podcast for the National Bureau of Asian Research. Remember the 'pivot' to Asia? U.S. wants to reassure Pacific allies it's still on 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Not to mention that the common noun “objection” fails to qualify as a “name, phrase, title, etc.” Style Invitational Week 1474: Hyphen the Terrible 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z You could use five-letter words with no proper nouns and no repeating letters. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Show photos of the ‘right’ masks worn properly 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Editing sentences for emphasis, concrete nouns, and active voice will help you write clearly and precisely, as will the following strategies. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Wendy Marco stood on the ice at the Washington Capitals’ practice facility in early January and faced a group of 7- and 8-year-olds as she explained the difference between a verb and a noun. She’s a 56-year-old former figure skater. Now she’s coaching kids and Capitals. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Its words combine easily, playfully, to become new words; its nouns shift form depending on their position in a sentence. Into the Belly of the Whale With Sjón 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z It's an adjective that describes the state of a disease, rather than a noun like pandemic. Covid in Scotland: What happens when the virus becomes 'endemic'? 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Note, however, that the meaning of that sentence could be misread if “radical” is thought of as a noun instead of an adjective. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Show photos of the ‘right’ masks worn properly 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z In the second example, the parallelism is created by the underlined nouns. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Typically used as a noun, it describes the act of undertaking some sort of outdoor physical activity in windy conditions. Forget hygge, it’s time for uitwaaien 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z In addition to “clean,” the French word has several translations, including “proper,” but “proper” is valid only when one is talking about such things as a “nom propre,” a “proper noun.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Unflattering descriptions of the dead 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z What we’re seeing is variation, where many of us can use both “less” and “fewer” for countable nouns, at least in some contexts. Opinion | Words in English don’t last forever. And that’s okay. 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The argument began as the chamber debated adding the Arabic female noun for a Jordanian citizen into the constitution's section on equal rights, one branded by some MPs as "useless". Fight in Jordan's parliament caught on live stream 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z In the second sentence, the writer simply adds a noun phrase to explain, and readers will appreciate the clarification. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In progressivism’s jargon, History is a proper noun designating something autonomous. Opinion | National conservatives and racial identitarians have a common enemy: Individualism 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Just look at all the proper nouns in that passage: Edward, Kenya, Gabrielle, Coyote’s Brain. The way Eve Babitz wrote about art in Los Angeles was art in itself 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Distinguishing countable and uncountable nouns through “less” and “fewer” is a grammatical nuance but not a communicative necessity. Opinion | Words in English don’t last forever. And that’s okay. 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Rarely have five words — okay, three nouns and a hyphenated adjective — elicited such anticipation. Review | Kungfu Kitchen serves up a tasty survey of Sichuan, Shanghai and Manchu dishes 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Edit sentences to include concrete nouns and action verbs—or “doers” and “actions,” as described above. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Like other Romance languages, Spanish divides most endings of nouns into masculine o’s or feminine a’s. Latinos’ rejection of reference term ‘Latinx’ rattles the world of the woke 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z Like other Romance languages, Spanish divides endings of nouns into masculine “o’s” or feminine “a’s”. Latino Dem rips party for using ‘Latinx,’ says it shows poor understanding of Hispanic community 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z While “fewer” keeps company only with countable nouns, “less” shows up with both uncountable and countable nouns. Opinion | Words in English don’t last forever. And that’s okay. 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The experience had made him more sympathetic towards people he had previously mocked for demanding new feminine nouns such as "blogerka" for a female blogger. Russia's Navalny says he has become a 'seamstress' in prison 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Use the “find” function to search your document for the word you, and then replace every unclear you with a definite noun. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z It defaults to the masculine ending when referencing a noun related to males and females in one group. Latinos’ rejection of reference term ‘Latinx’ rattles the world of the woke 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z It defaults to the masculine ending when referencing a noun related to both males and females in one group. Latino Dem rips party for using ‘Latinx,’ says it shows poor understanding of Hispanic community 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z They noted that the governor had actually beaten Ms. Abrams, while Mr. Perdue was, most recently, that most loathsome of nouns in the former president’s vocabulary: a loser. Right vs. Right vs. Left: Governor’s Race Puts Georgia at Center of 2022 Drama 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z He wrote that he had been asked not to quote Trump and others in meetings, not to describe conversations he had with Trump, and not to use certain verbs or nouns when describing historical events. Former Pentagon chief sues to publish material in ‘candid memoir’ of time in Trump’s cabinet 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Problem: “A feeling of accomplishment” is a noun phrase followed by a linking verb. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Our brand is a noun and a verb used all over the world. Why the future of work is the future of travel, with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The word “wrong” can be an adjective, a noun and a verb. Should I Tell a Facebook Friend I Had an Affair With Her Partner? 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z That may be, but I suspect that traditionalists in this realm are not unlike romance language aficionados who accept nouns as masculine or feminine without question. Op-Ed: When a woman sings tenor, it's a superpower 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z She recently made a connection in class between the fact that each Spanish noun is assigned a gender and the concept of “God’s assigned genders” for men and women. Christian Schools Boom in a Revolt Against Curriculum and Pandemic Rules 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z This construction means that what follows the verb either describes the noun or renames it in different words. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Today, the Department of Defense remains an appropriately capitalized proper noun. Can we stop calling our humongous military spending the "defense" budget? 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Others have argued that ending nouns and adjectives with an X instead of an O or A makes the language practically unpronounceable. It's 'Latiné' over 'Latinx' all the way for Tony winner Matthew López 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z At the time, the term “United States” was a plural noun, and the recently ratified Constitution was, as one pundit put it, “a roof without walls.” Review | Washington slept there: Retracing his travels to unite the new nation 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z A few blocks later, a woman offended by my polite dismissal of her demand to give her money fired off the same choice noun. This is not the beloved Seattle I knew 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Abstract nouns name ideas, such as perspective or theme; concrete nouns refer to specific, tangible elements, such as triangle, line, or granite. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z When simple nouns and verbs would do — for example, when he recorded his 3,000th career strikeout Sunday — Scherzer adds adjectives. Analysis | As he reaches 3,000 strikeouts, Max Scherzer is immaculate — and nearly perfect, too 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Even the title of the novel speaks to this slippage: is it “harrow” as verb, which means to pillage or to plunder, or “harrow” as noun, a cultivating tool? Review: Joy Williams' first novel in decades is an astonishing end-times parable 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Warren used the verb “stabilize,” the noun “turbulence” and the phrase “a year of seismic shifts.” It’s not clear what the Big Ten, ACC and Pac-12 are doing, but they’re doing it together 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Must she fight for a gender when she isn’t sure what nouns she wants to use? She has an MIT degree and doesn’t think skateboarding’s a sport. But she plans to win a medal. 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Edit to include concrete nouns and descriptive language when writing about images. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z That is a challenge in Spanish, which treats every noun as either masculine or feminine, and traditionally uses the male forms of plural nouns and adjectives to apply to mixed groups. Argentina Formally Recognizes Nonbinary People, a Latin American First 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z She had believed proper nouns would be excluded from the word list. Spelling bee champ Zaila Avant-garde was inspired by a Black girl named MacNolia Cox. This is why. 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Norris immediately protested to the judges — Nemesis, the goddess of divine retribution and revenge, was technically a proper noun and not an eligible word. Behind Zaila Avant-garde’s Win, a History of Struggle for Black Spellers 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z Simply put, “e” is the language’s feminine letter, used in feminine nouns and their adjectives and, sometimes, when conjugating verbs. In the French language, steps forward and back for women 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z An abstract noun is a word such as concept or practice. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In an interview years ago, the actor Ellen Burstyn told me, “When you mother a child, a relationship is formed. You become the noun by doing the verb.” Opinion | How to Make Your Small Talk Big 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Nor did they need to be admonished that the apostrophe should not be used to make a singular noun plural. John Richards, bulwark for the apostrophe against grammatical ‘barbarians,’ dies at 97 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z As currently bandied, the noun denotes much more than what normal speakers of the English language mean by infrastructure — roads, bridges, etc. Opinion | Democrats, don’t pass the SALT (cap repeal) 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Oh, it’s done all sorts of other things — “it” being the collective noun for all of the computers I’ve owned or used over the past 35 years. Perspective | My computer ate a month’s worth of emails. Somehow, it’s my fault. 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z A concrete noun refers to something visible or tangible: arc, circle, or line. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z |
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