21st Century Grammar Handbook


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No one. See none.
Not, not only … but. See negative and correlative conjunction.
Nothing. Negative relative pronoun. Nothing is singular inmost usages and cannot appear in a sentence that is already negated. WRONG Nothing never happens.”
RIGHT: Nothing ever happens See negative and double negative.
Not only … but. See not.
Noun. Words that name things or people, in the very broadest sense, are called
“nouns”: doghouse nurse flower “egret.”
Nouns can function in dozens of ways in sentences, as subjects, as objects, and in many other categories. Nouns have number—they can be singular when referring to one thing or person, or they can be plural when naming more than one. In the plural most nouns change form, adding “s.” Nouns also have gender, indicating whether the

person or thing they refer to is male or female in biological factor analogical imagining. Finally, nouns also have case, which names the role they play in a sentence nominative for subjects or subject complements (predicate nouns, objective
case for objects of verbs, prepositions, and soon possessive for ownership forms,
usually marked with an apostrophe and s or just an apostrophe.
Nouns that are used as names of individual things or people are called “proper
nouns” and are usually capitalized to indicate their special function John “Mary,”
“Ivan,” “Titanic,” Blue and Smith See capitalization.
Nouns agree with verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and other words when they need to
—when plurals must match plurals, masculines must refer to masculines, feminines must refer to feminines, and soon. See agreement. The gerund (“ing” form) of verbs can function as nouns Swimming is relaxing.”

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