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nouns
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Then, there is linguistic play with parts of speech—nouns recently converted to verbs, verbs used as adjectives.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025 -
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
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“Substantives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/substantives. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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