A little linguistics page

nounlab

English nouns quietly carry a handful of grammatical properties — the obvious ones (countability, number, definiteness, case, animacy, properness) and a few less obvious ones (concreteness, genericity, collectivity). Type a noun, flip a switch, watch the sentence change under it.

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Every sentence below updates live. The properness switch also assumes any noun can be treated as a brand name, which is a lie, but a fun one.

try:

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