Sample Sentences forcommon noun (auto-selected)
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The example will be clearer if you can use a well-known proper noun instead of a common noun.common noun = general-class noun
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As a common noun it meant pain, usually lengthy and often pointless; as a proper one it meant a character and a plot, the latter most assuredly lengthy and pointless, but on which would nonetheless end very soon.† (source)
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When I was younger, Mom pasted dozens of words on it, but I was still limited to only a handful of common nouns, verbs, and adjectives, some names, and a bunch of smiley faces.† (source)
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Most of the names in Homer and many common nouns have epithets: ships are often "black" or "swift," the sea is "winedark."† (source)
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/Kodak/ has so far won acceptance as a common noun that Eastman is often forced to assert his proprietary right to it.† (source)
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Many new verbs were made by the simple process of prefixing the preposition to common nouns, /e.† (source)
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E. J. [Pg231] Hills, in his elaborate study of the vocabulary of a child of two,[72] found that it contained but 23 descriptive adjectives, of which six were the names of colors, as against 59 verbs and 173 common nouns.†
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