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Sundarnaz Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Proper or common

Are "Muslim" and "Jew" proper nouns or common nouns?
  

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If they start with a capital letter, they are proper nouns.

— Clive

  • If they start with a capital letter, they are proper nouns.
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If they start with a capital letter, they are proper nouns.
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That's what confuses me. Sometimes I see them starting with capital letter sometimes not.
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sundarnaz That's what confuses me. Sometimes I see them starting with capital letter sometimes not.
Muslim and Jew should be capitalised. I don't consider them proper nouns, though.

CB
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I see now that there is more to this than I thought.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun
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CliveI see now that there is more to this than I thought
I've read Clive's link and I can't say that it made me any wiser.
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My goodness! There's really more to this. Thanks Mr.Clive, this really added much to my knowledge. But I think I should just learn English language rather diving into the ocean of grammar and linguistic because I don't know how to swim.
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Wading in the ocean is OK. Emotion: geeked
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