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English Punctuation

Learn about the rules for using punctuation marks in written English: apostrophes, braces, brackets, colons, commas, dashes, ellipses, hyphens, italics, parentheses, periods, question marks, exclamation marks, interrobangs, quotation marks, semicolons, and slashes. More

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Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Subject Complements

Learn about the use of nouns, pronouns, and noun phrases as subject complements in English grammar. More

in English Nouns, Linguistics

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Subjects

A noun is traditionally defined as a word that denotes a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun phrase is a phrase consisting of a noun or pronoun and any modifiers, complements, or determiners. Pronouns are a subcategory of nouns which take the place of nouns and noun phrases. In grammar, a subject is a […] More

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Evidence for the Death of the English Case System

Does the English language still have a grammatical case system as supported by the Modern English personal pronoun system? This article argues that, no, English pronouns do not show grammatical case and that, in fact, the English case system is dead. More

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English Punctuation

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Subject Complements

Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Subjects

Evidence for the Death of the English Case System

The English Personal Pronoun System

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English Adjectives

English Nouns

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