Proper Nouns



Proper Nouns :



You are familiar with the concept of NOUN. In addition, you know, there are various nouns. The first important noun is this type of noun. The word used to indicate the specific person or a place or an organization or a thing or an idea is called this type of noun. The first letter of this noun will be written in Capital letter. Examples of this type of noun are :

John
Cauvery
New York
Capitalism
Hinduism
The Bible
Samsung
Sony
India
Sri Lanka
Himalaya
Yoga
Amazon

There are the specific names of person or things or places. The word MAN is also noun. But the word MAN can indicate any man in the street. If you want to specify a particular person, you have to use his name. JOHN is his name. So, the word JOHN is the noun of this type. As the name indicates, JOHN point out the specific person called JOHN. So, the same case with other nouns of this type mentioned above. The MOUNTAIN is a common name. But the word HIMALAYA speaks about the particular mountain called HIMALAYA. So the word HIMALAYA is called this type of noun.

This type of noun need not be a single word.

Pacific Ocean : This is also this type of noun. Although this has two words in it, both the words are capitalized. Both collectively is called this type of noun.

Central Green Park, Anna University, Harvard University, Saint John Kennedy University, etc…. there are more such nouns which can be treated as this type of nouns.

We could find an equivalent common noun for every proper noun. But not vice versa.

Kennedy is an equivalent of the word MAN. But the word MAN is not an equivalent of the word KENNEDY. This implies that whenever we use the term KENNEDY, we can use the term MAN. But whenever we use the term MAN, we could not use the term KENNEDY. The reason is obvious. These types of nouns indicate persons, places, things, ideas and concepts.

Few more examples for this type of nouns are here.

1. Christmas
2. Diwali
3. London
4. Ponparappi
5. Kansas
6. Tamil Nadu
7. United Kingdom
8. Sri Lanka
9. United States of America
10. The Bible
11. Thanksgiving
12. Tamil
13. French
14. Malayalam
15. Germany
16. Sweden
17. Apple
18. Guava
19. Google
20. English
21. Queen Elizabeth
22. King Leas
23. YouTube
24. Facebook
25. Quora
26. Twitter

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