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These diagrams break sentences down into noun phrases and verb phrases and then further subdivide them into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and so forth.
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Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
But reconstruction didn’t end with nouns and verbs.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Set in a medieval Spain, Bad Bunny and Hernandez were seen explaining to a cohort of scholars the reasoning behind why certain nouns were masculine or feminine.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2025
Borges tells us that in Tlön’s Ursprache there are no nouns; instead, there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic prefixes with an adverbial value.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
But reconstruction didn’t end with nouns and verbs.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Set in a medieval Spain, Bad Bunny and Hernandez were seen explaining to a cohort of scholars the reasoning behind why certain nouns were masculine or feminine.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2025
Borges tells us that in Tlön’s Ursprache there are no nouns; instead, there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic prefixes with an adverbial value.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Nouns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nouns. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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