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How Do I Work With Common And Proper Nouns?


Common nouns name persons, places, things and ideas.
Examples: man, friend, librarian, aunt, giraffe, ant, school, city, table, computer, beauty, religion, sadness.

Proper nouns name specific persons, places, things, and ideas. Proper nouns are capitalized.
Examples: Mr. Harding, Pat, Ms. McNeal, Aunt Lorraine, Caldwell School, Prague, Dell, Islam.

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When writing titles of songs and albums which do you capitalize or underline?

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