Yes, the noun 'picnic' is a common noun, a general word for a meal packed and eaten outdoors.
The noun 'traffic' is a concrete noun as a word for the vehicles, pedestrians, ships, or planes moving along a route; a word for a large number of vehicles at a given place; a word for a physical thing.
The noun 'traffic' is an abstract noun as a word for the business of buying and selling; a word for communication or dealings between persons or groups; a word for a concept.
The word 'traffic' is also a verb.
When used as the name of a planet , it is a proper noun , and should be spelt with a capital 'M' , wherever it appears in the sentence.
So your question should read, 'Is Mars a common noun or a proper noun?'
Polaris is a proper noun . It is the name of the pole star,. Wherever a proper noun appears in a sentence it should be spelt with a capital letter.
'Noun' is the collective word for common nouns and proper nouns.
The word 'star' is a common noun, because individual stars have names, which makes the noun a proper noun. e.g. the star , Sirius , is a proper noun, because Sirius is the name of a given star.
The word 'irregular' is both a noun and an adjective.
The noun irregular is a word for a piece of merchandise that contains a flaw, which is often sold at a reduced price; and a word for a soldier who does not belong to the armed forces of a country.
The noun form for the adjective irregular is irregularity.
The noun 'Mary' is a singular, concrete, proper noun; the name of a person.
Proper nouns for father include specific names like John, Michael, or David.
Yes, Guy Fawkes is a proper noun because it is the name of a specific historical figure known for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament in 1605.
Yes, the noun 'reader' is a common gender noun as a word for one who reads.
The noun 'reader' is a neuter noun as a word for a device that reads or retrieves data, or a book of text designed to give learners of a language practice in reading.
Yes, William is a proper noun as it is a specific name of a person. It always begins with a capital letter.
Her reference to Greek mythology was a clever allusion in her speech.
Nouns in the sentence are "Paul Bunyan" and "tales."
No, the demonstrative pronouns are this, that, these, and those. However, the pronoun that is also a relative pronoun; the relative pronouns are who, whom, whose, which, and that.
In this sentence, that is a relative pronoun introducing the relative clause 'that may or may not be true'.
Yes, "Charles Dickens" is a proper noun as it is the name of a specific person.
Yes, "infatuation" is a noun. It refers to an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something.
Yes, the word narrative is a noun, a singular common noun. The word narrative is also an adjective. Example sentences:
Noun: They presented a narrative on the voyage of Shackleton.
Adjective: Narrative poetry is one of my favorite forms of literature; I memorized 'The Cremation of Sam McGee' when I was in school and I can still recite parts of it today.
"Illiteracy" is a noun that refers to the inability to read or write.
Joint ownership is shown by making the last word in the series possessive; for example:
Individual ownership is shown by making both (or all) parts possessive; for example:
The word author is a noun, a word for a writer of poetry or prose, a word for a person.
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence. The pronouns that take the place of the noun author are he or she as a subject, and him or her as an object, and his or her for the possessive. Examples:
When the author arrives, hewill be pleased with the display of his work.
The author is my aunt. She has been writing since I can first remember her.
The singular possessive is Richard's; the plural possessive is Richards'.
Add the -'s to the end of the name James (singular), for example, Jim James's house.
The plural form, the James family are the Jameses, the plural possessive is the Jameses' house.
The apostrophe after the s of the plural noun brothers tells you that it is a possessive noun, a noun indicating that something in the sentence belongs to two or more brothers.
Examples:
My brothers' names are Mike and Max. (the names of the brothers)
The brothers' business is very successful. (the business of the brothers)
She made sandwiches for her brothers' lunch.