Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. [1] In various languages, nominal groups consisting of a noun and its modifiers belong to one of a few such categories.
A modern claw hammer with rubber-coated handle Knife handle. A handle is a part of, or attachment to, an object that allows it to be grasped and manipulated by hand.The design of each type of handle involves substantial ergonomic issues, even where these are dealt with intuitively or by following tradition.
Different forms of English handle verb agreement with collective count nouns differently. For example, users of British English generally accept that collective nouns take either singular or plural verb forms depending on context and the metonymic shift that it implies, while in some other forms of English the verb agreement is less flexible.
Proper nouns are a class of words such as December, Canada, Leah, and Johnson that occur within noun phrases (NPs) that are proper names, [2] though not all proper names contain proper nouns (e.g., General Electric is a proper name with no proper noun).
The snaith has either one or two short handles at right angles to it, usually one near the upper end and always another roughly in the middle. The handles are usually adjustable to suit the user. A curved, steel blade between 60 and 90 centimetres (24 and 35 in) long is mounted at the lower end at 90°, or less, to the snaith.
Handle, in computer programming, is an opaque pointer, i.e., a datatype that hides its internal implementation using a pointer; Adjustment handles, little boxes for resizing a GUI control; Handle System, a system for uniquely numbering digital objects; Handle-o-Meter, a machine that measures surface friction and flexibility of sheeted materials
A proper noun (sometimes called a proper name, though the two terms normally have different meanings) is a noun that represents a unique entity (India, Pegasus, Jupiter, Confucius, Pequod) – as distinguished from common nouns (or appellative nouns), which describe a class of entities (country, animal, planet, person, ship). [11]
A definite clause grammar (DCG) is a way of expressing grammar, either for natural or formal languages, in a logic programming language such as Prolog.It is closely related to the concept of attribute grammars / affix grammars.