THE NOUN: KINDS OF NOUNS
19. Noun is word used
as the name of person, place or thing.
Note:- The word
thing is used to mean anything that we can think of.
20. Look at the
following sentence.
The noun Asoka refers to a particulars king, but the noun king might be
applied to any other king as well as to Asoka. We call Asoka a Proper Noun, and king a Common Noun.
Similarly:
Sita is a Proper
noun, while girl is a Common Noun.
Hari is a Proper Noun, while boy is a Common Noun.
Kolkata is a Proper
Noun, while city is a Common Noun.
India is a Proper
Noun, while country is a Common Noun.
The word girl is a
common Noun, because it is a name common to all girls, while Sita is a proper
Noun because it is the name of a particular girl.
Def.- A Common Noun is a name given in common
to every peron or thing of the same class or kind.
[ Common here means shared by all.]
Def.-A Proper Noun is
the name of some particular person or place.
[Proper means one’s own. Hence a Proper Name is a person’s
own name.]
Note: 1- Proper Nouns are always written with a capital
letter at the beginning.
Note 2 – Proper nouns are sometimes used as Common Nouns;
as,
1.
He was the Lukman (= the wisest man) of his age.
2.
Kalidas is ofter called the Shakespeare (= the
greatest dramatist) of India.
