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How to pronounce noun in English?

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Type Words
Type of content word, open-class word, substantive
Has types generic noun, collective noun, mass noun, common noun, count noun, proper name, proper noun
Type Words
Type of major form class

Examples of noun

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What's the noun of association for stuff you learn solely for pub quiz purposes?
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Also, a language needn't necessarily be inflective to have noun case declension.
From the economist.com
If a Hyphen is used as part of a noun then it should be embraced with open arms.
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The vast majority of wikipedia articles use descriptive noun phrases as headers.
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Stubs are named in a very specific way, using components in, or from, noun form.
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Note that there must always be a pronoun between a definite noun and the copula.
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Why would there be a collective noun for members of a strictly solitary species?
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Adjectives can precede the noun as in English, or follow the noun as in Spanish.
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In American English, practice is the noun and the verb and practise is not used.
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  • A content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
  • The word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
  • Noun is a department of West Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 7687 kmu00B2 and as of 2001 had a total population of 434,542.The capital of the department lies at Foumban.
  • (Nouns (album)) Nouns is the first LP (as Weirdo Rippers was a compilation of singles and EPs) by American experimental music duo No Age. It was (partly) recorded at Southern Studios in London. ...
  • (Nouns) are indicated by the use of the definite article, "the," following the word. Since Yiddish, like German, has three genders, it's important to know the noun's gender. The nominative definite articles are: Der, masculine; dos, neuter; and di, feminine (or plural). ...
  • (Nouns) I feel that it is very useful to teach learners those collocations with a noun as a key word. This is because the majority of general nouns usually require further qualification:
  • (Nouns) Noun derivatives, plurals and grammatical tools.
  • (Nouns) Travel/journey/trip/expedition/safari/ cruise/voyage (BBC) - What is the difference ?
  • (Nouns) aberration | alacrity | axiom | brevity | chagrin | conflagration | connoisseur | decadence | dissident | duplicity | extrovert | foible | hegemony | hyperbole | kinship | languor | levity | maverick | osmosis | receptacle | remorse | repartee | solidarity | spendthrift | subterfuge | ...