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  Noun
Nouns occur in sentences in two different ways: as subjects (performers of action), or objects (recipients of action); in the sentence "John wrote me a letter", "John" is a subject, and "me" and "letter" are objects.
The meaning of a proper noun, outside of what it references, is frequently arbitary or irrelevant (for example, someone might be named Tiger Smith despite being neither a tiger nor a smith).
Proper nouns are capitalized in English and most or all other languages that use the Latin alphabet; this is one easy way to recognize them.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/no/Noun.html   (379 words)

  
 What Is A Noun?
A common noun is the opposite of a proper noun.
A concrete noun is the opposite of a abstract noun.
A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count.
www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/nouns.html   (1996 words)

  
 Proper noun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This sets proper nouns apart from common nouns, which pick out classes of entities.
Proper nouns also differ from common nouns in not being able to co-occur with other expressions that common nouns can co-occur with.
For example, in English, proper nouns normally can't be preceded by (in-)definite articles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proper_noun   (171 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Noun
A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality.
Nouns are parts of speech and can be classified in different ways such as proper nouns (e.g.
The meaning of a proper noun, outside of what it references, is frequently arbitrary or irrelevant (for example, someone might be named Tiger Smith despite being neither a tiger nor a smith).
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Noun   (710 words)

  
 Search Results for "proper noun"
...The proper noun is the name of a member of a major American political party; the adjective Democratic is used in its official name, the Democratic party.
Of course, the noun "divus" opposite to a proper noun = a god, as in Horace, 3 Odes v.
Welch is an occasional variant spelling of both proper noun and adjective and reflects a variant pronunciation, WELCH....
bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?...&query=proper+noun   (301 words)

  
 Noun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase.
Proper nouns are usually capitalized in English and most other languages that use the Latin alphabet, and this is one easy way to recognise them.
Collective nouns are nouns that refer to groups consisting of more than one individual or entity, even when they are inflected for singular.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noun   (1943 words)

  
 The Noun
Nouns have different classes: proper and common, concrete and abstract, count and noncount, and collective.
Proper nouns always begin with capital letters; common nouns, on the other hand, only require capitalization if they start the sentence or are part of a title.
The reason is that collective nouns can be singular or plural, depending on the behavior of the members of the group.
www.chompchomp.com /terms/noun.htm   (548 words)

  
 Preservice Teacher: Jane Foderaro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I will ask the students to tell me what proper nouns are.  The students will tell me a proper noun names a particular person, place, or thing.  We will then discuss such examples as Philipsburg (a particular place), Mr.
I will explain that proper nouns are always capitalized and may consist of more than one word; for example the United States of America is a proper noun; it is capitalized and consists of four words.
I will then explain that they have a worksheet to do, on which they have to identify common and proper nouns, so it is similar to their homework from last night.  (As I speak, I will be passing out the worksheets).
www.personal.psu.edu /students/j/c/jcf193/propernounlesson.htm   (575 words)

  
 Proper Nouns vs. Common Nouns
Is the noun a common or proper noun?
Instruct students they are to write down as many proper nouns as they can come up with for the given category.
Teacher assesses chart for accuracy of 15 common nouns and 15 proper nouns.
www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=15110   (483 words)

  
 Writing Tips: Sentence Builder - Nouns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nouns that end in a consonant followed by a y are made plural by dropping the y and adding ies.
Nouns that end in a vowel followed by a y are made plural by adding s.
Nouns that end in f or fe drop the f or fe and add ves.
www2.actden.com /writ_den/tips/sentence/nouns.htm   (160 words)

  
 Nouns
A noun is a word used to name a person, place or thing.
Nouns name items that can be seen, and they also name ideas, feelings and beliefs.
A fourth kind of compound noun is a proper name that consists of more than one word.
www.yorku.ca /gcareers/grammar/nouns.htm   (417 words)

  
 Persian Noun Phrase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The elements preceding the head noun are the determiner, the numeral constructions and the quantifiers.
Pronouns and proper names mark the boundary of the Noun Phrase (i.e., no other NP element can appear to the right of pronouns and proper names), hence they are often included as the last element in the Persian NP.
The complex noun phrase is the equivalent of the genitive or possessive constructions in English, such as "Mao's red book", "her mother's hat" or "the syntax of noun phrases".
crl.nmsu.edu /Research/Projects/shiraz/ling/np.html   (3926 words)

  
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A proper noun is a noun which refers to a specific person, group of people, place, animal, or thing.
A common noun is a noun which refers to any or all of the members of a class, (a person, place, or thing).
Rule: Common nouns are not capitalized; proper nouns are capitalized.
gullibletravel.tripod.com /ProperCommonNouns.htm   (82 words)

  
 Dictionary.com
A common noun used alone as a substitute for the proper noun is not capitalized unless it is a very well-known form, e.g.
The plural of a common noun which is an essential part of a proper noun is also capitalized, as '10th and I Streets'.
Words/phrases which are derivatives of a proper noun are capitalized when their meaning is directly referring to the proper noun, e.g.
dictionary.reference.com /writing/styleguide/proper.html   (230 words)

  
 Elementary Course. Nouns. lesson 1
Tara (proper noun) is a girl (ordinary noun).
In English proper nouns have capital letters, even if they are not at the beginning of the sentence.
A possessive noun is usually connected to another noun, to show that the noun in the possessive "has" the other noun.
www.english-online.org.uk /elem1/nouns1e1.htm   (771 words)

  
 proper noun - Search Results - MSN Encarta
A noun (Latin nomen, “name”) is usually defined as a word denoting a thing, place, person, quality, or action and functioning in a sentence as the...
All nouns in Spanish have gender—either masculine or feminine.
In general, a noun’s ending indicates its gender.
encarta.msn.com /proper+noun.html   (144 words)

  
 Proper Nouns - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com
Proper nouns are the names of individual people, places, titles, calendar times, etc..
Proper nouns are always written with a capital letter.
Nouns which are not written with a capital letter do not refer to the name of an individual person or thing and are called common nouns.
www.usingenglish.com /glossary/proper-noun.html   (109 words)

  
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Two types of nouns are common and proper nouns.
Each main word in a proper noun begins with a capital letter.
A noun ending in a consonant and y, change the y to I and add es.
www.melodyshaw.com /Notes_on_Nouns.doc   (257 words)

  
 The Common Noun
Every noun can further be classified as common or proper.
Proper nouns, those that name specific things, are the class of nouns that require capitalization.
Notice the difference between the common and proper nouns.
www.chompchomp.com /terms/commonnoun.htm   (163 words)

  
 Nouns
A plural noun refers to more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
A nominative noun can also be a predicate noun (predicate nominative) which follows a "be" verb (am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been) and renames the subject.
noun can be a direct object, and indirect object, or an object of the preposition.
www.kahnwithak.com /nouns.htm   (267 words)

  
 NOUN help   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Basically, a noun is a word which names an object, a place, a person, a thing.
Nouns which are real names are called Proper nouns.
As an example, "dog" is not a proper noun, it is a noun.
www.berghuis.co.nz /abiator/rdg/nounhelp.html   (145 words)

  
 hands on proper noun activities - ProTeacher Community
The only idea I have is to have pictures cut out of magazines (perhaps that the kids have cut out from the prior poster's suggestion) and have 2 boxes, "common" and "proper" and the children take turns putting their picture in the correct box.
I thought my students caught on best when I said that "proper nouns" that needed to be capitalized were usually "names".
After checking with about four children in the class if it would be alright to use their names in an activity, write the names properly and improperly on the board.
www.proteacher.net /discussions/showthread.php?t=1626   (749 words)

  
 English Grammar: Proper Nouns (EnglishClub.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A proper noun is the special word (or name) that we use for a person, place or organization, like John, Marie, London, France or Sony.
A name is a noun, but a very special noun—a proper noun.
In this lesson we look at the uses of proper nouns, followed by a quiz to check your understanding:
www.englishclub.com /grammar/nouns-proper.htm   (56 words)

  
 MyWord.info proper noun, proper name
The word "proper noun" with this meaning is a noun (word that shows name of a thing).
"proper" is from "propre", spoken in France during 1000-1400 A.D. which is from "proprius", (one's own), spoken by ancient people in central Italy around 700 B.C. "noun" is from "nomen" (name), spoken by ancient people in central Italy around 700 B.C. Note
The first letter of a proper noun is always upper case.
myword.info /sendword.php?proper_noun_1   (136 words)

  
 Nouns and Articles: Articles: Four Basic Questions
A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing and begins with a capital letter.
A noun like information is uncountable: we cannot say one information, two informations, many informations, and so on.
The noun is countable and has singular and plural forms.
college.hmco.com /english/raimes/digitalkeys/keyshtml/nouns_a5.htm   (423 words)

  
 Common/proper noun functions of theos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
At 8:04 AM -0700 5/27/00, John Wilking wrote: >The noun theos appears to function both as a common noun (a title), and as a >proper noun.
As a proper noun it appears to be used only as the Father's >name in the NT.
You're talking about English nouns rather than Greek ones--with reference to nouns used both as terms for categories or roles--agent nouns--and as proper names.
lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-greek/2000-May/011835.html   (216 words)

  
 Education World ® Lesson Planning: Proper Noun Gallery Walk Activity
A proper noun is a noun that names a specific person, place, or thing.
Some of the proper nouns should be properly capitalized and others should be erroneously uncapitalized; in addition, some common nouns also might be erroneously capitalized.
Have students edit the statements so all proper nouns are capitalized and all common nouns are lower case.
www.education-world.com /a_lesson/04/lp334-03.shtml   (752 words)

  
 Common and Proper Nouns
This is an active way for students to remember to capitalize proper nouns.
Tell students that common nouns are not capitalized and proper nouns are capitalized.
Say a few common and proper nouns aloud or have them on the overhead.
www.lessonplanspage.com /LAFunCommonProperNounActivityIdea57.htm   (133 words)

  
 abcteach Printable Worksheet: Grammar: Parts of Speech: Nouns
A noun is a person, place, or thing.
If the noun is the name of a person it is called a proper noun.
Decide which of these nouns are proper nouns.
www.abcteach.com /grammar/nouns1.htm   (58 words)

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