Thefts from shops have hit a record high in this country – but it’s the affluent among us who might be to blame
  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    274·
    11 months ago

    I immediately think less of anyone who doesn’t know the difference between a noun and an adjective.

    • interceder270@lemmy.worldEnglish
      535·
      11 months ago

      Calling someone ‘a’ Karen is using the word as an adjective.

      Calling someone ‘Karen’ is using it as a proper noun.

      I’m guessing you just looked at the upvoted comment that said it’s not an adjective and assumed it was correct.

      For shame.

      • apolo399@lemmy.worldEnglish
        102·
        11 months ago

        This is a person This is a human This is an individual

        Are all of those adjectives? lol

      • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
        81·
        11 months ago

        My brother in christ you need to retake primary school English and learn what nouns are

      • Applesauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        In this context, ‘This’ is the adjective, as it describes the amount of Karens there are in this sentence. Karen is indeed the noun in this situation.

        An example of using ‘Karen’ as an adjective would be: ‘did you how so-and-so went completely Karen on that clerk?’

        You visualize how so-and-so acted in a particular way towards the clerk. The adjective to describe the behavior was ‘Karen’.

        Hope that clears things up.