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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

proper names?

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00I reviewed the past posts regarding this subject and found to be inadequate, partially possibly due to my fault. Aside from that, can you help me to understand better?02br
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1i 00Proper names02i 00 (often called 01i 00proper nouns02i 00), are the names of specific, unique entities. 01i 00Proper nouns 02i 00can easily be distinguished from 01i 00common nouns02i 00 in English because proper nouns are indeed always capitalized. 02i 02br 02br 00 Here one can see the difference between a proper and common noun.

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  • 1i 00Proper names02i 00 (often called 01i 00proper nouns02i 00), are the names of specific, unique entities.
  • 01i 00Proper nouns 02i 00can easily be distinguished from 01i 00common nouns02i 00 in English because proper nouns are indeed always capitalized.
  • 02i 02br 02br 00 Here one can see the difference between a proper and common noun.
  • Both sentences refer to the same subject performing the same action.
  • After reading the first sentence, we know that a man is responsible for eating the pizza, but the common noun "man" doesn't offer us any insight (beyond gender) as to whom that person may be.
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1i00Proper names02i00 (often called 01i00proper nouns02i00), are the names of specific, unique entities. 01i00Proper nouns 02i00can easily be distinguished from 01i00common nouns02i00 in English because proper nouns are indeed always capitalized. There's not much more that can be said on the subject, so I'l
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0Thank you very much.02br
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00Why did you place "a" in front of "Rolling Stone" eventhough 01i00Stone02i00 it is articling for is in parentheses like here?02br
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01i00A "Rolling Stone"00 in the second sentence is a member of a specific band called The Rolling Stones.02i02br
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0 "The Rolling Stones" is the name of the band, thus;02br
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00 Mick Jagger is a member of The Rolling Stones.02br
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00 Mick Jagger is a Rolling Stone.02br
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00 George W. Bush is a member of the Bush family.02br
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0 Xess gave some good examples, and I'll add what I can. "The Rolling Stones" is the full name of the band in question. If the word 'the' were not part of the band's name, then it would not be capitalized, and you would see it would see it written as "the Rolling Stones". The word 'the' is a definite article, which means that it precedes a specific singular or plural noun that's part of a lar
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0although i tend to type without any capitalized letters (force of habit), i'll attempt a simple explanation.02br
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00you can think of proper names as proper nouns. a proper noun is a name of a person, a place or a thing. for example:02br
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00Arvin 05000 or Mr. Gatmaitan = name of a person02br
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0By following your reasoning, is it the case that if a band named "Smelly Rose" is playing in a house, we can say like the sentence below?02br
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00Welcome all. As advertised on newspapers, 01u00the Smelly Rose02u00 is playing in the house. Enjoy the performance.00 (the word "the" is not capitalized.)02br
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0I had a band before named "Imago". But I am now part of a band called "Eternal Now".02br
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00When people would introduce Imago right before we play, they would sometimes say, "...and now, please welcome the Imago band!"02br
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00I hated that. The proper introduction is, "...and now, please welcome Imago!"02br
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00So similarly
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