Assertion: proper noun's noun | /r/UsedFor | refer to thing
Facets:
value: only ever
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: A noun is a word that refers to a thing (book), a person (Betty Crocker), an animal (cat), a place (Omaha), a quality (softness), an idea (justice), or an action (yodeling).
text: An abstract noun is a noun which refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions - things that cannot be seen or touched and things which have no physical reality, e.g. truth, danger, happiness, time, friendship, humour.
text: A common noun refers to any thing or concept that is not particular or specific.
text: Nouns which only ever refer to one thing are called singular nouns:
text: A noun is a word that refers to a thing (book), a person (Betty Crocker), an animal (cat), a place (Omaha), a quality (softness), an idea (justice), or an action (yodeling).
text: The difference between a proper noun and a regular or common noun — aside from capitalization — is that proper nouns refer to a specific person, place, or thing rather than a general category.
text: A common noun refers to a person, place, or thing but is not the name of a particular person, place, or thing.
text: And a plural noun refers to more than one person or thing, or sometimes to something that has two main parts.
text: If the noun is nonspecific, that is, the noun refers to a general idea and not a specific person, place, or thing, it is usually not a proper noun, so it
text: A common noun refers to a generic person, place, or thing: teacher, classroom, smartphone.
text: A common noun refers to a generic person, place, or thing: teacher, classroom, smartphone.
text: "... an abstract noun refers to an action, concept, event, quality, or state (love, conversation), whereas a concrete noun refers to a touchable, observable person or thing (child, tree).
text: A proper noun, meanwhile, is a noun that refers to a specific person, place, or thing, such as Lady Gaga, Monongahela River, and iPad.
text: No matter the type, each noun is always going to refer to a person, place, thing, or idea.
text: These include proper nouns, which refer to a specific person, place, or thing, and are indicated in English by a capital first letter, such as Nancy or Los Angeles; concrete nouns, which are nouns that describe a tangible object or person, such as the dog; abstract nouns, which describe anything that cannot be perceived using the five senses, such as love; countable nouns, which are nouns that may be pluralized, such as chairs; non-countable nouns, which are nouns that have no plural, such as bedding; and collective nouns, which describe a group of another noun, such as a murder of crows.
text: A proper noun is a type of noun that refers to a specific person, place, or thing (Evelyn, Cairo, Saturday, etc.)refer to classes of things (cat, trash, stone, etc.) rather than particular ones.
text: Common nouns can refer to any person, place, or thing.
text: A proper noun is a noun referring to a particular person, place or thing, e.g. David, London, Wednesday.
text: Proper nouns are nouns that refer to specific people, places or things.
text: An abstract noun is a noun which refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions - things that cannot be seen or touched and things which have no physical reality, e.g. truth, danger, happiness, time, friendship, humour.
text: A common noun refers to general places, people, or things.
text: That is when speakers use count nouns to refer to things they implicitly have something in mind that they are trying to communicate that is common across all uses of count nouns.
text: Concrete nouns are nouns which refer to people and things that exist physically and that at least one of the senses can detect (can be seen, felt, heard, smelled/smelt, or tasted).
text: Traditionally, we are taught that nouns are words that refer to people, places, things, or ideas.
text: Proper nouns are nouns that refer to specific people, places or things.
text: Concrete nouns are nouns that refer to things that exist physically and can be touched, seen, smelled, felt, or tasted.
text: A common noun refers to things, being or concepts without referring to a specific one of them.