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Re: substantive and noun

From:Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>
Date:Thursday, September 19, 2002, 5:09
--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

> Once again a result of the strange terminology used > by English-speaking > countries. Internationally (it's the definition I > learnt), the noun is a subset > of the substantive, not the other way round, and > while noun and adjective can > be opposed, substantive put them together, and adds > the pronouns to the mix.
That's what I learned; and I use "noun" as a subset of "substantive".
> Christophe.
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