The Category of Number of English Nouns

     Patterns of this kind are generally used metaphorically and function as expedients to express intensity and emphasis, e. g.: "I'll send Pork to Macon to-morrow to buy more seed. Now the Yankies won't burn it and our troops won't need it. Good Lord, cotton ought to go sky high this fall". (Mitchell)

     Further examples are:

     He is world too modest. That was lots better. This was heaps better. He was stone deaf to our request. Waves went mountains high. The mud was ankle deep.

     Adverbial use of nouns will also be found in such premodification structures as: bone tired, dog tired, mustard coloured, horror struck, etc.

     In the grammar of nouns there have also developed interjectional uses which seem to convert nouns into special kind of "intensifiers", e. g.: What the dickens do you want? What the mischief do you want?

     Further examples are:

     The hell you say = you don't say so.

     Like hell I wish \

     I will like hell          / I will not

     Where in the hell you are going?

     How the devil should I know?

     Adverbs of affirmation and negation yes and no are intensified in emphasis by the proximity of a bald bawling hell, e. g.: Hell, yes! Hell, no! 
Conclusion 

     In the conclusion of my work, I would like to say some words according the done investigation.

     The main part of my work consists of following items:

• «What is Noun»?, as it is seen from the title in this part I gave the definition to the term noun.
• «Semantical Characteristics of Nouns» In this chapter I characterized English nouns from due their semantical meaning.
• «Category of Number». In this part I gave the definition to the category of number of English nouns, described different types of numbers of nouns in English

     Standing on such ground I will add that investigation in the questions dealt with English adjectives is not finished yet, so we will continue it while writing our qualification work.

     I hope that my course paper will arise the sincere interest of students and teachers to the problem of adjectives in contemporary English. 
 

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