Nouns are words that name people, places or things. For example, ‘man’ and ‘kitchen’ are nouns. One word is naming a person and the other is naming a place. ‘Cake’ is another example.

Sometimes a noun looks like it should be plural when it isn’t. Chances are that this noun is called a mass noun. Mass nouns are nouns that, by their very nature, are plural. These are also called ...

This is what is referred to as preserving parallel structure. For instance, nouns must match with nouns, adjectives with adjectives, prepositions with prepositions, and adverbs with adverbs. In order ...