The double-s is ubiquitous. Most adjectives can be turned into nouns by adding "-ness." bashfulness, consciousness, liveliness, etc. also, authoress, agribusiness, (just for fun) Edit. Hmm, looks like I need to visit the optometrist

The A level Language textbook we use categorises 'my' 'your' 'his' 'her' 'our' and 'their' as possessive pronouns. I think they cannot be pronouns since they do not replace nouns. I have seen them

Hello. I happened to fine this website when I searched for information about English grammar. A few minutes ago, I read a sentence, "There's something the matter with this pen." I can't understand how

Hi. Thank you. You wrote: 2-- I don't understand your question. The second is correct. 'Near or far' are coordinate post-modifying adjectives. Thank you for helping me. Could we safely say that the words in parentheses

You know, there is a certain entertainment value in reading the word choices of non English speakers, because even if the meaning is clear, sometimes the world choices are something that no native speaker would use. Conclusive is an adjective (I

Now if I look up "are," the dictionary tells me that it is the present plural of "be." But what I would expect is that it would tell me that it is the present plural of "am" or "is" because those are the

And, the "is" is needed if the adj. is followed by a noun: He is a nice person ( equivalent to "he very nice" ) also needed when there's no adjective: The Sun is a sphere

There has nothing to do with the choice; thus: Are there any wafer s ? Also note that below cannot be used as an adjective and consequently you need to change the word order: "Can I use 'are' in the question below ?" Oddly

From a strictly grammatical point of view, only really soon is correct because real is originally an adjective. In informal style and spoken English real is used as an adverb but it's a good idea to avoid expressions like real good in serious

"extraordinary" is an adjective and therefore doesn't take an article. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/01/