A noun can be singular or plural.

It's not a noun. It's a verb.

She is a woman of singular beauty.

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This particle turns a noun into a verb.

In this case, the adjective goes before the noun.

I know the sentence must start with a noun.

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This word should be treated as a noun in this case.

However, in this case the first noun acts as an adjective, e.g.

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Civilization (singular) is, on the contrary, an evaluative moral category the opposite of barbarism.

RD Well look, our singular mission is the creation and prevention of strategic surprise.

This fourth one is a bunch of 14 flowers ... it gives a singular effect.

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Happiness is not a countable noun. It would make no sense to have 18 happinesses.

Sometimes a verb is derived from a noun and sometimes it is the other way around.

Most important, despite the challenges it faces, the Chinese economy s singular importance is now widely recognized.

They follow the word they modify, which may be a noun, verb, or another adjective or adverb.

With his assignment in the castle over, Rhodes is on the hunt for other singular writing experiences.

PM Davutoglu stated that the operations that began today are not singular, they are part of a process.

The Central African Republic is quite singular in the African landscape, because of the nature of its infighting.

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The meaning of the words civilization and culture is very different when they are used in singular and plural forms.

Without Gorbachev and his singular courage, the stream of events across Europe during fall of 1989 never would have been possible.

This was on bio satellites, but again, it was a singular experiment and such research needs to be conducted, says Vladimir Sychev.

The metaphor of war has the singular advantage that it clearly and strongly evokes the intensity of the counterattack that was called for.

Certainly, coordination between the member states exists, and is even successful at times, but without strong European institutions, such singular successes will not last.

In Russian as in French and other languages the second person singular is used in conversation between intimates and also in speaking to inferiors.

The eminent columnist Amin M. Lakhani recently argued in the Dawn , Pakistan's largest circulation newspaper, that Pakistan's singular preoccupation with Kashmir...has been self defeating.

I am wondering why anyone would require six Facebook pages when the singular target of this campaign is to sell only one product, i.e. Malaysia.

Used as a noun, ein diutscher in the sense of a German emerges in Middle High German, attested from the second half of the 12th century.

Theirs is the nationalism of free, liberated people, who can expect the most generous devolution deals possible to protect their singular legacies and address their grievances.

Oblonsky dined at home, the conversation was general, and his wife addressed him familiarly in the second person singular, which she had not done all these days.

The pros No distinction between gender such as masculine or feminine No distinction between number singular and plural are the same Only three tenses past, present, future, and unconjugated

The court also found it aggravating that Gibson had used Les Paul in the plural form and that the importer of Gibson guitars had used Les Paul as a common noun.

A singular vision has always animated this process animosity between neighbors must not be allowed to fester, and the rule of law must reign not just within countries, but also between them.

The irony here is that Myriad s discovery would have been made in any case, owing to a publicly funded, international effort to decode the entire human genome that was a singular achievement of modern science.

While there were some singular bilateral accomplishments, such as the adoption of the US India civil nuclear energy deal, the US has been perceived to be less effective in dealing with the region s burgeoning multilateral frameworks.

A recent ceremony in Copenhagen marked a singular achievement in global public health, an achievement, which confirms that development aid works, and that it works best in partnership. An independent commission certified the 51 countries of the World Health Organization European Region free of polio.