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Proper adjectives: the forgotten relative of proper nouns

We know that there are proper nouns, and we know that we use capital letters for proper nouns. But there is another group of words in English that we capitalise, and they are called proper adjectives. Never heard of them? Don’t worry: most people haven’t. Proper adjectives are like the long-lost cousin of proper nouns,

Nouns: Proper nouns and common nouns – and capital letters

By Susan20 March 2018Parts of Speech – NounsApposition, articles, Capital letters, Commas, Common nouns, Nouns, Proper nouns, titles, Types of nouns, Vocative comma

Proper or common? Of queens, receptionists and capital letters One useful way to split up the infinite number of nouns is to divide them into common and proper nouns. It is a useful division, because proper nouns are a very strange group of nouns: in several ways, they have quite different characteristics from all other

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Proper adjectives: the forgotten relative of proper nouns

Nouns: Proper nouns and common nouns – and capital letters