Yee from Hong Kong writes: I'm not sure how the suffix -ness works. Can we add -ness to all types of words to make nouns? Thanks for your answer.

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or ...

These are also called uncountable nouns or noncount nouns. The phrases “water,” “rice,” and “literature” at first seem like they should be plural. If we said “bowls of carrots” or “different types of ...

There are so many nouns that we’ve had to put them into categories. There are actually more than ten different kinds. There’s not enough time to go through all of them in one podcast episode ...