What is the proper name from different points of view?

Own and common noun names have such a characteristic peculiar to them, how to change places, that is, the proper name can become a common noun, and vice versa. Such smallness is very often misleading. Let's look at the intricacies, terms and details.

What is a common noun? This is a noun that denotes something. For example: a dog, a tree, a person, a table, etc. A common noun, unlike one's own, can be used in the plural, but is written according to the rules of the Russian language.

What is the proper name? The most that neither is the usual name or name. It can belong to a person or a dog, a country or a mountain range, a cake or a magazine. Anyway, to whom or what, the main thing is that it is this word that distinguishes an object, creature or something else from a number of others. For example: Guadeloupe (the name of the country), King Kong (the name of the monkey from the film of the same name), Gennady Gennady (name, surname and patronymic, belonging to one person). That is, all three examples are nouns proper, despite the fact that some of them consist of several components.

What is the proper name in terms of grammar? This is a noun that must be written with a capital letter that does not have a plural (except for the surnames belonging to the group of persons (Smirnov, Kulikov).) In cases where the proper name is used in relation to the name of the store, hotel, newspaper or car make, its Should be written also in quotation marks, for example: the plant "Progress." In this particular case, the word plant is a noun common noun, and "Progress" is a proper noun and is written with a capital letter in quotes, Rity.

And now let's consider what is a proper name outside the context? Often just a noun. Let's take the previous example and consider the word "progress", which indicates the movement forward. Unlike the previous phrase, now in the sentence, where it denotes a direct concept, it will be a noun synonym. Compare:

• I work at the plant "Progress" (own name).
• In my work there has been progress (the name is a common name).

From the above, we can conclude that the word itself is rarely a clear concept of what it is. You can understand the essence, proceeding from the context, except for personal names. Although in some cases even a name can not be the guarantor of what is a noun proper, and not a common noun. For example, the name Vera. Compare:

• The girl Vera (her own name) left us.
• At the last moment, faith (the common noun) left us.

In the first case, the name of the person is used, and in the second, the term denoting certainty in anything.

At the end of the article, I would like to tell you what a proper name is in terms of science. A huge "field" for studying. The thing is that the proper name has a certain stability, allowing scientists to restore historical facts, migration routes, disappeared settlements and much more. Science, studying the proper names, is called onomastics. It is also worth noting the fact that the proper names in English, as well as in German, Portuguese or any other language of the world, which has both an alphabet and differences between lowercase and uppercase, are also written with a capital letter.