proper noun

NOUN
  1. a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized
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How To Use proper noun In A Sentence

  • He often used commas to end a sentence, he rarely capitalized proper nouns.
  • ** The Fog Index: [(number of words/number of sentences) + words three syllables and above, not counting proper nouns or words made trisyllabic with simple "- ing" type suffixes] x 0.4 = the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading. Archive 2007-08-01
  • Proper nouns can: when we talk about London fog, we are using London (a proper noun) as an attributive modifier of the noun fog.
  • Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
  • One was antonomasia, the usually derisive practice of describing an individual by a certain characteristic, then making it into a proper noun.
  • Many of these same words are capitalized even though they are not proper nouns nor the beginning of the sentence.
  • A brand name is a noun, a proper noun, which like all proper nouns is usually spelled with a capital letter. THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF BRANDING
  • And for GOD'S sakes, Hilary, capitalize every first letter of every proper noun, like the name of your title ‘Venus’.
  • But nobody disputes that the term Great Depression is a proper noun. Salon
  • There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.
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