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A Noun _Substantive_ is usually placed after its _Noun Adjective_; as the _Second Chapter_, a _great Man_.
A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) Henry Bate
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A Noun _Adjective_ is a Word added to the _Noun Substantive_, expressing the Circumstance or Quality thereof; as _a good Man_, _an old Woman_, _a young Child_.
A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) Henry Bate
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WTF this screeching by Sowell has to do with The Deciderator-In-Chief's "Great War On A Noun" is beyond me.
Balkinization 2007
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TGIF: A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing « Musings from an overworked translator
TGIF: A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing « Musings from an overworked translator 2009
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Last Thursday I attempted to show the students “A Noun is a person, place or thing.”
I does NOT take an apostrophe « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2007
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A Noun is a composite significant sound, not marking time, of which no part is in itself significant: for in double or compound words we do not employ the separate parts as if each were in itself significant.
Poetics 2002
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A Noun is a composite significant sound, not marking time, of which no part is in itself significant: for in double or compound words we do not employ the separate parts as if each were in itself significant.
Poetics 2002
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A Noun is the name of a _person_, _place_, _thing_, or _quality_; as,
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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A Noun is a _Part of Speech_ which expresses the Subject spoke of; as
A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) Henry Bate
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Of these, the Noun is the most important, as all the others are more or less dependent upon it.
How to Speak and Write Correctly Joseph Devlin
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