Special Uses Of Nouns - Noun-Parts Of Speech-ESL/Learn English Grammar

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Nouns change by use


13. By being used so as to vary their usual meaning, nouns of one

class may be made to approach another class, or to go over to it

entirely. Since words alter their meaning so rapidly by a widening or

narrowing of their application, we shall find numerous examples of

this shifting from class to class; but most of them are in the

following groups. For further discussion see the remarks on articles

(p. 119).



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