Common noun is one of the various types of nouns used in English grammar. Nouns are words that refer to things, people, places, and ideas. They can be classified into different types, such as Common ...

Confused about when to use capital letters? Read on to learn about the difference between proper nouns and common nouns, and find out when we use capital letters. In English, we capitalise proper ...

Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.

Apostrophes are equal opportunity humiliators. As I wrote recently, apostrophes incriminate less-word-savvy types by popping up in plurals like “We play bridge with the Smith’s” and “He had two ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

For decades family arguments have raged furiously over whether words like Quzhou (a city in southern China, 27 points) and Zuma (as in the South African president, 15 points) are eligible. At least to ...

In 2 studies, 2-year-old children learned a novel word modeled as a proper noun (e. g., "This is Zav") for an animate stuffed toy. Children who learned the word for a familiar object (i. e., one for ...

Recently, I wrote about some changes to the AP Stylebook’s rules on hyphens. Specifically, I reported that AP is going lighter on them, arguing that if a hyphen doesn’t do anything to make a compound ...

Mattel said the use of names will add a "new dimension" to Scrabble The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company ...