03/10/2021
GRAMMAR TIPS 🖊️
Proper and Common Nouns
A Proper Noun is the specific name by which a personality, being, concept, event or place of special status is uniquely and specially called or identified.
By the term of special status, this definition excludes generic names and creatures, events and places of no special or less important status from proper nouns.
Thus because of its special status, the initial of a proper noun is ALWAYS in upper case.
And thus, proper nouns are given for uniqueness and status.
Proper nouns are often contrasted with common noun.
Common nouns are the names given to different beings and creatures of a kind, class or of no or less important status to humans.
Thus common nouns are given for common, and some times specific identification, with no regard to status.
Example:
Although diabetes is a specific name of a sickness, it is still a common noun because it has no special status or importance to humans.
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