Proper and common nouns have such a peculiarity in them as swapping places, that is , a proper name can become a common noun, and vice versa. Such a little is very often misleading. Let's understand the intricacies, terms and details.
What is
a household name? It is a noun denoting something. For example: a dog, a tree, a person, a table, etc. A household name, unlike its own, can be used in the plural, and is written according to the rules of the Russian language.
What is a proper name ? Most common name or title. It may belong to a person or dog, country or mountain range, cake or magazine. Anyway, to whom or what, the main thing is that it is this word that distinguishes an object, creature, or something else from the rest. For example: Guadeloupe (name of the country), King Kong (name of the monkey from the movie of the same name), Gennadyev Gennady Gennadyevich (name, surname and patronymic, belonging to one person). That is, all three examples are proper nouns, despite the fact that some of them consist of several components.
What is a proper grammar name ? This is a noun that must be capitalized without a plural (except for surnames belonging to a group of persons (Smirnov, Kulikov). In cases where a proper name is used in relation to the name of the store, hotel, newspaper or car brand, it it should also be written in quotation marks, for example: the plant “Progress.” In this particular case, the word plant is a common noun, and “Progress” is a proper noun and is capitalized in quotation marks, as it denotes the name of the pre Riyah.
Now let's look at what a proper name is out of context? Often just a noun. Take the previous example and consider the word "progress", which means moving forward. In contrast to the previous phrase, now in the sentence, where it will denote its direct concept, it will be a common noun. Compare:
- I work at the Progress plant (proper name).
- In my work, progress has been outlined (common name).
From the foregoing, it can be concluded that the word itself rarely carries a clear concept of what it is. You can understand the essence, proceeding from the context, with the exception of personal names. Although in some cases even a name cannot guarantee that it is a proper noun, not a common noun. For example, the name Vera. Compare:
- Girl Vera (proper name) left us.
- At the last moment, faith (common name) has left us.
In the first case, the name of the person is used, and in the second, the term denoting confidence in something.
At the end of the article I would like to tell you what a proper name is from the point of view of science. A huge "field" to study. The thing is that the proper name has a certain stability, allowing scientists to restore historical facts, migration routes, disappeared settlements and much more. A science that studies proper names is called onomastics. It is also worth noting that the proper names in English, as well as in German, Portuguese or any other language of the world, which has both the alphabet and the differences between lowercase and uppercase, are also written with a capital letter.