How To Use Proper noun In A Sentence
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He often used commas to end a sentence, he rarely capitalized proper nouns.
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** 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
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Proper nouns can: when we talk about London fog, we are using London (a proper noun) as an attributive modifier of the noun fog.
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Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
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One was antonomasia, the usually derisive practice of describing an individual by a certain characteristic, then making it into a proper noun.
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Many of these same words are capitalized even though they are not proper nouns nor the beginning of the sentence.
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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
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And for GOD'S sakes, Hilary, capitalize every first letter of every proper noun, like the name of your title ‘Venus’.
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But nobody disputes that the term Great Depression is a proper noun.
Salon
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There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.
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_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
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Any proper noun is a brand.
THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF BRANDING
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Initial experiments to teach a German Shepherd dog proper nouns were unsuccessful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of the twenty-one quadrisyllable verse-endings in the _Ex Ponto_, six involve proper nouns: II ii 76 _Dalmatiae_, ix 42 _Alcinoi_, the present passage, IV iii 54 _Anticyra_, viii 62 _Oechalia_, and ix 80
The Last Poems of Ovid
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A text for students devoted seven pages to the use of a capital letter to indicate a proper noun.
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Note that some words derived from proper nouns have developed a special meaning; these words are no longer capitalized.
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We have already seen this use generalised to descriptive titles of books, paintings etc (Reclining Nude; Portrait of a Lady …) Of proper nouns, Halliday has this to say “With proper nouns [the referent] is defined experientially: there exists only one, at least in the relevant body of experience … This means that typically there is no further specification … Proper names usually occur without any other elements of the nominal group”.
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Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
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Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
