• The following sections of A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Language (Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartik, Longman, London & New York, 1985) was consulted in preparing this entry:
Word classes in relation to meaning
§2.43, 74-75
Noun classes: count, noncount, and proper nouns
§5.2, 245-246
Concrete and abstract nouns
§5.3 247
Nouns with dual class membership
§5.4 247-248
Proper nouns
§5.60 288
• re “note 1” in “noun” entry: the two quoted phrases are found on page 246 of “A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Language”