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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.—
Steve Nadis,
Quanta Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025 -
But reconstruction didn’t end with nouns and verbs.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Substantives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/substantives. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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