How To Use common noun In A Sentence
- _Mississippi_ is a proper noun, because it is the name of an individual river; but _river_ is a common noun, because it is the name of a _species_ of things, and the name _river_ is common to _all_ rivers. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
- The Christological inflection, however, particularizes these common nouns by the use of the definite article.
- Another type of antonomasia we meet when a common noun is still clearly perceived as a proper name.
- Galopin, a famous epic thief, but it may also come from the common noun galopin -- The Romance of Names
- Nationality nouns (Americans, a New Zealander, the Japanese) lie on the borderline between proper and common nouns.
- The groundwork of the pleasantry is the identity in form of the proper name with the common noun 'will.' A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
- We use the capitalized form of "Nature" here, and avoid using nature as a common noun.
- 1 By contrast, and to anticipate something closer to the turn of Agamben's thought perhaps, the generalized apostrophe "Beware of the dog" — as speech act rather than common noun in clausal context — absents the animal's presence Notes on 'Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian'
- For some thinkers, the primary significate of a common noun was the common nature, and the secondary significate was the thing having that nature. Medieval Theories of Analogy
- Reply: The distinction between identity and similarity statements (or sentences) is usually drawn in terms of the distinction between substantival and adjectival common nouns. Relative Identity