Read full poem →"There has of late arisen," says Johnson in his Life of Gray, "a
practice of giving to adjectives derived from substantives the
termination of participles, such as the _cultured plain_, the
Dictionary Entry
(grammar) a word that names a person, place, thing or idea; a noun (sensu stricto)
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Common Phrases
. substantivessubstantives two
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Poetry examples for “substantives”
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