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n Nouns
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Nouns can be divided into two groups, common nouns and proper nouns. All nouns that are not
“proper nouns” are grouped together as “common nouns”.

Proper
Nouns

Proper nouns

 Names of specific people, places, things or ideas. (e.g.) Luke, Rome, Ferrari, Nike.
 These nouns are naming SPECIFIC things; therefore they begin with a capital letter.
 Sometimes they contain, two or more words, therefore both words are capitalised (e.g.)
Luke Rossi, Central Park Zoo, Pacific Ocean.

Common Nouns

 These are generic nouns. They name people, places , things or ideas that are NOT SPECIFIC
(e.g.) woman, city, dog, shoe, bottle, hat
 Since these nouns are not naming anything in specific, they do not start with a capital letter
unless they are at the beginning of a sentence.
Here are some examples below: