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Having been tired of trying, he wants to give up. This is formed correctly - but having been tired of trying I believe is participial phrase - the phrase modifies he wants to give up like an adjecti …

You can't have two nouns back-to-back without a conjunction such as and or or. The pattern is almost always this: { Article / determiner } { Adjective } { 2nd adjective, etc. } .... { Noun } …

Open the doors, I want to get a breeze. The meaning of breeze has a lot of aspects that make it work as an itemizable, separable "thing": breezes can have a start location and an end location bree …

If you ask for advice, you really don't know how much advice you need, otherwise you'd probably wouldn't be asking for advice. Advice when desired is usually not a precise, measured activity, the cor …

If you know what the "thing" is and it's a container, then empty X is the usual way to express it. English doesn't have a general single word for empty container. If you really don't know what X is, …

An outfit is a set containing one or more items of clothes that is for a single person to wear. An outfit can have 1 item, such as a dress, or multiple items, such as shoulder pads, helmet, etc. Eve …

To be and a few other words including to seem, to become are a type of verb called a copular. Adjectives can follow copulars.

In a turmoil trivializes turmoil. This is going to sound silly - but it's because use of the indefinite article makes it seem like there's a group of "turmoils" just waiting to happen to countries …

This works with proper nouns/names, so the answer to your question appears to be yes. I watched Peter yesterday. I watched Peter Smith yesterday. … As far as whether it's worthwhile to make the distinction between proper nouns and names - I think the below are examples of proper nouns that aren't names: When do you want the assignment done, Professor …

This is right, but plural nouns or noun phrases can "attributively" modify a singular noun. Reference. This is what's happening with both your examples. …

-ing words as nouns follow the same rules in regard to articles as any other nouns. …

Take heed of @Catija's comment: Squish when the target is a person is similar to, but not as strong as crush or squeeze. By default it describes something somewhat unpleasant. On the off chance this …

So since these are nouns, you follow the usual rules with articles - which are confusing, but if creating of the new plan or creation of the new plan is an instance of something specified earlier in conversation …

In English, many words can fill more than one function of speech (but of course, many are limited to only one function of speech). Oak can be a noun or an adjective. An adjective generally does the …

[Birth to] live young is a phrase that means the opposite of "hatched from an egg". Oviparous would mean born from an egg that is laid by the mother, rather than developing in a womb. Of course the …