Proper nouns can be plural as long as more than one thing shares the name (e.g., “the Oscars”). What is the difference between a proper noun and a common noun? Common nouns don’t refer to anything in particular. In the sentence “Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer,” Abraham Lincoln ...
RULE:Wealwaysuse aCapitalLetter for the first letter of a name or proper noun. This includes names ofpeople,places,companies,daysof the week andmonths. For example: They likeAnthony. (notThey likeanthony.) I live inEngland. She works forSony. The last day inJanuary is aMonday. We sawTi...
Yes, proper nouns can be plural. For example, the proper noun “Smith” can become “the Smiths” when referring to a family with that last name. However, the plural form of a proper noun does not change the fact that it is still a specific name and must be capitalized. ...
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On Existential Bare Plural 'Subjects': They Don't Exist! Drawing on Strawson's (1971) definition of the subject as performing the function of identifying the object of the speaker's assertion and of the predicate... Kallulli,Dalina - 《Belgian Journal of Linguistics》 被引量: 15发表: 2005...
” Here, “states” is a common noun, but it is capitalized because it is part of a proper name. Additionally, certain terms like “earth” or “sun” can be treated as both common and proper nouns, depending on context. For example, “Earth” is treated as a proper noun when ...
根据最后一段“One last thing to note: This exceptional sentence is possible because the plural of the animal buffalo is buffalo, not buffalos, otherwise all the words wouldn’t be identical.(最后要注意的一点是:之所以会出现这个例外的句子,是因为动物buffalo的复数形式是buffalo,而不是buffalos,否则...
@Curtis: We are still talking generally about singular nouns. You would never write or say “waitresses’s”; as a plural it would always be waitresses’ venqax August 4, 2014 at 6:38 pm A related anecdotal note. American history books have traditionally referred to the uprising led by Da...
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