toform

Purpose

Converts a string value to the specified grammatical value, unlike the norm() function, which converts the specified argument to the initial word form.

Syntax

toform([grammatical_value], argument)

Arguments

Requires two arguments. The first argument is grammatical_category, which specifies the exact form of the required argument (number, case, gender, etc.). The second required argument is a named group that must be converted to a specific grammatical category.

  • If a word has several variable grammatical categories, for example, a noun has this number and case, then when one of them is indicated, the rest will remain unchanged: toform(nominative, countries') returns "countries", not "country".

  • Several grammatical categories can be listed with underscores, for example: nominative_plural.

Returned Value

A string converted to specific grammatical value.

Examples

toform(singular, "state universities") returns "state university".

toform(infinitive, "made a statement") returns "make a statement".

toform(noun_nominative_singular, "doctor’s prerogatives") returns "doctor prerogative"