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4 Nouns: Common

and Proper

Learning Objectives

After completing this chapter, learners will be able to:

• identify common and proper nouns in a sentence.
• list the examples of nouns.

Learning Time

There are two types of nouns— Common Nouns and Proper Nouns.

A common noun is the name of a person, place, animal or thing.

A proper noun is the special name of a person, place, animal or thing.

Read the conversation between these two girls.

I am a girl. My
name is Shreya.

I am also a girl. My
name is Shanaya.

Here, girl is a common noun and Shreya and Shanaya are special names.

Special names are known as proper nouns.

This is my pet parrot.

Its name is Tuffy.

Here, parrot is a common noun and Tuffy is a proper noun.

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