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Myriad may be used either as an adjective (there are myriad people outside) or as a noun (there is a myriad of people outside), [5] but there are small differences. The former might imply that it is a diverse group of people whereas the latter usually does not.
Some theories of grammar use the word "numeral" to refer to cardinal numbers that act as a determiner that specify the quantity of a noun, for example the "two" in "two hats". Some theories of grammar do not include determiners as a part of speech and consider "two" in this example to be an adjective .
Biblical manuscripts have notes in the margin, for liturgical use. Numbers of texts' divisions are given at the margin (κεφάλαια, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons). There are some scholia, corrections and other notes usually made later by hand in the margin. Marginalia may also be of relevance because many ancient or medieval writers ...
Merriam Webster online lists such a meaning "both numerous and diverse" (as an adjective). However, this meaning is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article. The article also (to me) seems to over-emphasize the use of the word as a noun. Its use as an adjective is mentioned, but its use as a noun seems to get undue weight.
The term wansui (萬歲), literally meaning "ten thousand years", is thus used to describe a very long life, or even immortality for a person. Although the First Emperor of Qin also wished "ten thousand generations" (万世) for his imperial rule, the use of wansui was probably coined during Han dynasty.
A major sentence is a regular sentence; it has a subject and a predicate, e.g. "I have a ball." In this sentence, one can change the persons, e.g. "We have a ball." However, a minor sentence is an irregular type of sentence that does not contain a main clause, e.g. "Mary!", "Precisely so.", "Next Tuesday evening after it gets dark."
A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal or interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the reader's language if that is different. A collection of glosses is a glossary.
Ordinal indicators are sometimes written as superscripts (1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th, rather than 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th), although many English-language style guides recommend against this use. [4] Romance languages use a similar convention, such as 1 er or 2 e in French, or 4ª and 4º in Galician and Italian, or 4.ª and 4.º in Portuguese and Spanish.