No, “since” is not a coordinating conjunction. It functions as a subordinating conjunction in sentences like these:
Everyone is an indefinite pronoun meaning “every person.” Indefinite pronouns are nonspecific, and the meaning of “everyone” can vary depending on the context.
For example, it can be used to refer to every person in a particular group (e.g., “everyone at the party had a great time”) or more generally to refer to every person in the world (e.g., “everyone needs to drink water to stay alive”).
People sometimes confuse everyone and every one. However, the indefinite pronoun is always written as one word.
An appositive noun is a noun or noun phrase that appears straight after another noun to specify what it refers to or provide more information.
If the appositive provides essential information (that is, it wouldn’t be clear whom or what you were talking about without it), then no punctuation is used to separate it from the surrounding words: “Your friend David is here to see you.”
If the appositive just provides extra information that isn’t essential to the meaning of the sentence, it’s set off with commas: “My hometown, Lochem, is quite small.”
A noun phrase is any series of words in a sentence that collectively functions as a noun. For instance, the sentence “My apartment has three windows” contains two noun phrases: “my apartment” and “three windows.”
A noun phrase contains at least one noun or pronoun and all the other words (e.g., determiners, articles, adjectives, prepositions) that modify it.
Noun phrases can be long and complex. For instance, in the sentence “The fact that I can’t attend your party tomorrow is regrettable,” the subject of the sentence is the long noun phrase “the fact that I can’t attend your party tomorrow.”
An attributive noun is used is a noun that’s placed before another noun to modify it, in the same way as an adjective. For example, in the phrase “teacher training,” the noun “teacher” is used attributively to modify another noun, “training.”
Attributive nouns are not exactly the same as adjectives. A big difference is that they can only be used in the attributive position—before the noun they modify—and not in the predicative position.
For example, you can write either “extensive training” or “training that is extensive”; but you can’t write “training that is teacher.” This is because “teacher” is just an attributive noun, not a true adjective.
No, the word “the” is not a verb. It is an article (along with “a” and “an”). Articles come before a noun to show whether it is general or specific.
“The” is a definite article, which means it refers to one specific person or thing (e.g., “the dog I saw yesterday”).
QuillBot’s Grammar Checker can help you make sure you’re using different parts of speech correctly.
