What
is a noun? A noun is a word that
represents a person, place, thing or idea. If it can be held,
touched, visited, looked at, thought or felt, it's a noun.
Common
and Proper nouns:
Proper nouns are names
of things. Any person's name, or the name of a place are all
proper nouns. Common nouns are not names, they just represent a
generic name for all of its kind. For example, 'Mt. Rushmore'
is the name of a mountain so it's proper. But if I just said
'mountian', that's not the name of any specific mountian so it
is common.
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