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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Classifying nouns

is republicans common,proper,collective, or compound
  

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Hi, If you are talking about the US political party, it's a proper noun ( R epublicans). If you are not , it's a common noun. eg People who support the idea of a republic are r epublicans.

— Clive

  • Hi, If you are talking about the US political party, it's a proper noun ( R epublicans).
  • If you are not , it's a common noun.
  • eg People who support the idea of a republic are r epublicans.
  • Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,

If you are talking about the US political party, it's a proper noun (Republicans).

If you are not , it's a common noun.

eg People who support the idea of a republic are republicans.

Best wishes, Clive
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Nouns which are capitalized are proper nouns, but you don't pay any attention to captalization, so how are you going to know that?

CJ
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