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United is an adjective. States is a plural noun. The "of America" is another adjective. Therefore, "U.S." is as valid to refer to the United States of America as "The U.S.", and for us punctuationally apathetic, "The US".

So in other words...

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In formal writing Microsoft Word says you're wrong if you only have one space between sentences...
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That is because if you go to Tools -> Options -> Spelling & Grammar -> Settings you will see you can select whether you want Word to check for one or two spaces.

United is an adjective. States is a plural noun. The "of America" is another adjective. Therefore, "U.S." is as valid to refer to the United States of America as "The U.S.", and for us punctuationally apathetic, "The US".
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Well, you are right that "united" is an adjective and that "states" is a noun. However, "of America" is a preposition phrase.

However, according to this page, and numerous other webpages when googled for, the abbreviation "U.S." always functions as an adjective and not as a noun. :)
 
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