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Improve Your Grammar Skills with 2 Great FREE Intermediate-Level Worksheets on Noun Modifiers - Download Now!

Improve Your Grammar Skills with 2 Great FREE Intermediate-Level Worksheets on Noun Modifiers – Download Now!

Putting Nouns before Nouns – Noun Modifiers

A noun before a noun, acting as an adjective, is called a noun modifier, e.g., ‘pizza party’. They are also known as attributive nouns, noun adjuncts, and qualifying nouns. It literally means ‘a party with pizza’, but it makes more sense to us and is easier to write ‘pizza party’ than a prepositional phrase.

Practice using noun modifiers with these two fantastic free printable worksheets and improve your grammar skills!


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 Putting Nouns before Nouns – Noun Modifiers 1 (Grammar Skills)

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Putting Nouns before Nouns – Noun Modifiers 2 (Grammar Skills)

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100 English Nouns which are Plural Only (Plurale Tantum) - FREE Printable Worksheets

100 English Nouns which are Plural Only (Plurale Tantum) – FREE Printable Worksheets

100 English Nouns which are Plural Only (Plurale Tantum) – FREE Printable Worksheets

The Latin phrase Plurale Tantum refers to a noun which has a plural form but no singular form.
A Plurale Tantum is often one item with two parts, working together as a set, particularly clothes for the lower half of the body, e.g. trousers, leggings, shorts, etc. We cannot have one trouser, one legging, or one short, for example.

Improve your vocabulary by learning this useful list of 100 Pluralia Tantum in English.


100 English Nouns which are Plural Only (Plurale Tantum)

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100 English Nouns which are Plural Only (Plurale Tantum) – by Category

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Plural Nouns Quiz by Tímea Kolberová

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