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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
a proper noun
Hi,
I came across a few posts where the people commenting (or providing responses) on them told inquirers that proper nouns are nouns that have "the" in front and of things like "the earth", "the moon" and so on. Can you explain in detail about this, give me a previous post, or recommend a website?
I came across a few posts where the people commenting (or providing responses) on them told inquirers that proper nouns are nouns that have "the" in front and of things like "the earth", "the moon" and so on. Can you explain in detail about this, give me a previous post, or recommend a website?
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The presence of "the" does not create a proper noun. Sometimes, not always, writers capitalize "earth", "sun", and similar terms which have unique referents, as in "the Earth", "the Sun". I do not believe that they are truly the names of those entities, and therefore I do not believe they are proper nouns.
- The presence of "the" does not create a proper noun.
- Sometimes, not always, writers capitalize "earth", "sun", and similar terms which have unique referents, as in "the Earth", "the Sun".
- I do not believe that they are truly the names of those entities, and therefore I do not believe they are proper nouns.
- If they were, we could write "I see it's going to be a fine day because Sun is out", which is completely ungrammatical.
- "Sun" is not the name of the sun in the way that "Jim" is my name.
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The presence of "the" does not create a proper noun.
Sometimes, not always, writers capitalize "earth", "sun", and similar terms which have unique referents, as in "the Earth", "the Sun". I do not believe that they are truly the names of those entities, and therefore I do not believe they are proper nouns. If they were, we could write "I see it's going to be a fine day because Sun
Sometimes, not always, writers capitalize "earth", "sun", and similar terms which have unique referents, as in "the Earth", "the Sun". I do not believe that they are truly the names of those entities, and therefore I do not believe they are proper nouns. If they were, we could write "I see it's going to be a fine day because Sun
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0 Hello. "Sun" is the name we gave to a star. Therefore I believe that "Sun" is a proper noun. 0-
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is earth a common noun or proper noun0
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i think that earth is a proper noun because it is just one.
i think that earth is a proper noun because it is just one.
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Didn't you read the thread?
Sometimes, not always, writers capitalize "earth", "sun", and similar terms which have unique referents, as in "the Earth", "the Sun". I do not believe that they are truly the names of those entities, and therefore I do not believe they are proper nouns. If they were, we could write "I see it's going to be a fine day because Sun is out", which is complete
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It depends. If you are referring to the earth as in the soil or ground, it is common. If you are referring to it as the planet, then it is proper, so you would capitalize it.
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