A
col'lll:lon nouu
is
a
nooo referring to
a
person,
place,
or
thing
in
a
general
sense. Iis usuaHy v;ritten
in a capital !otter olliy
it begins a sentence.
The
following sentences
are
the
examples
of
sen!ences
with
c on nouns
which are
underlhed:
-
Most
of the l}Q:l ::J. in thls area have a garden filled '"ith
beau1tifirl flowers.
students forgot to bri'lg
Sometimes ycu
vlili
make
proper
nouns
out
of
oommon
nou!lS,
as
in the
fdlowing
examples:
meals
the Booocing
:fjean Restaurant
are
expensive
than
meals
in ordinary
restaurants.
Brigget
Jones's
Diarv
is
an
adaptation
from
a
very
popular noveL
you know, proper nouns rue
na.'Des, such as 'John', 'Singapore'
'Christmas',
and
are
capitalized, whereas
common nouns
fonn the
largest
of
nouns
an
English
diction!!ry.
a
text, use a proper
noun
as against
a
common
nooo
may
be
of
stylistic
signific&>ce.
Rcpeati<>g a
person's
name,
example,
instead
of
using
appropriate
make
text
sound
forma!,
or
even
respected,
although
sarcasm
may
2.3.L2.
A
verb
is often
defiiieG as
a
•
doing'
won:L It is a word
expresses
an action,
a
process
or a state (Todd,
1982: 57). For exa!:'lpies:
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