Which Word In This Sentence Is An Example Of A Common Noun

Common Nouns

Nouns can exist:

common nouns
proper nouns

There are MILLIONS of websites, and the word "website" is a common noun.

At that place is just ONE Google, and the word "Google" is a proper substantive.

A proper noun is the name of something unique, similar me (Joe). Yous tin can larn nearly proper nouns here.

This folio is about common nouns, which are all the "normal", general nouns. Simple examples of common nouns are:

volume, table, machine
water, milk, oil
music, fine art, literature
dog, woman, teacher

Common nouns are everywhere. Expect around you now and you will come across many mutual nouns:

door, window, tree, heaven, cat, truck, road, computer, phone, bottle, ball, luggage, people, hair

Common nouns can be countable (bottle, dollar) or uncountable (milk, coin); singular (desk, pencil) or plural (desks, pencils); concrete (piano, bed) or abstract (music, happiness). And they follow all the usual rules of countable/uncountable, singular/plural, concrete/abstract nouns. But there is ONE rule that ALL common nouns need to follow: they don't start with a capital letter letter!

Common Nouns Don't Need Capitals!

A typical fault that people make with common nouns is to capitalize them. Just recollect, simply a proper noun (like your name or title) needs to start with a capital letter. A person's "job" (chairman, president, king/queen) may or may not need capitalisation. It depends whether it is the "position" or the "title". There have been many presidents of the USA. Those are positions. But there is just ane President Trump. That is his championship and proper name.

If a common noun comes at the beginning of a sentence, then it gets a capital letter—considering all sentences beginning with a upper-case letter alphabetic character.

If a common noun occurs in a heading (for example above, Mutual Nouns Don't Demand Capitals!), so it may get a capital letter (depending on editorial style).

If a common substantive occurs in the championship of a book, flick, vocal, album etc, then information technology usually gets a majuscule (War and Peace, The Lord of the Rings, Nighttime of the Living Dead, The Host, The College Dropout).

Of course, if a common noun occurs in a heading that is all in capitals (e.thousand. newspaper headline), so information technology is capitalized (Human being BITES Canis familiaris, CONTINENT CUT OFF BY FOG).

Here are some example sentences showing right and wrong use of capitalization:

Incorrect: In the 20th century, the U.k. had 4 Kings and one Queen.
Correct: In the 20th century, the UK had iv kings and one queen.
Incorrect: Elizabeth Ii is Queen of the UK.
Correct: Elizabeth II is queen of the UK.
Incorrect: The reign of queen Elizabeth 2 began in 1952.
Correct: The reign of Queen Elizabeth Two began in 1952.

And this table of common and proper nouns should prove you the difference. Notation that the mutual nouns exercise non start with a upper-case letter, and the proper nouns do start with a capital: