nouns

Mass nouns and plural nouns don't necessarily need determiners, depending on how you're using them.

In these cases the phrases are being used as proper nouns for preexisting events on the timeline.

To actions and nouns they are great, but not very good for file types.

If you're relying on abstractions and adjectives to replace nouns, then it's a dead-end.

I'm not saying gerunds are nouns because they refer to objects -- I'm saying they're nouns because they can be the subjects of verbs (and otherwise appear where nouns appear).

Read on: > Proper nouns like George Washington don't need a determiner.

I empathize with the plasticity that comes with repeating gender nouns over and over again.

In Spanish doesn't sound that weird because nouns have genres anyway.

It exists but isn't necessary for applying adjectives to nouns.

As for nouns and verbs, higher-order functions treat verbs (i.e.

Link that to some simple nouns like roll, toss, catch, etc and we can start a meaningful integration of language and actions.

Proper nouns like George Washington don't need a determiner.

If one says that humans have built in brain wiring for "grammar" (Chomsky[2]) to understand nouns, verbs, and recursive clauses...

Yegge's "Kingdom of Nouns" makes the point well.

There are many more well known nouns called Columbia than just the university, but amusingly the very first sentence on Wikipedia reads "'Columbia' is a frequent misspelling of Colombia, a large country in South America.

[1] They almost feel like "uncountable" nouns, but I'm not sure.

Nouns, verbs, additives, adverbs, intonation, tense, and a 29 years of knowledge and I frequently have no idea what someone is saying.