Select in the following sentences the nouns that are names of particular
persons or things, and the nouns that are names of all the members of a
class of persons or things:—
1. These little girls live with their parents in Toronto.
2. Mary and Harold are going to visit their friends.
3. On a little mound, Napoleon
Stood on our storming day.—_Browning._
A name of a particular or individual person or thing is called a =proper
noun=; as, Mary, Saturday, Lake Ontario.
Proper nouns begin with capital letters.
A name that applies to all the members of a class of persons or things
is called a =common noun=; as, girl, desk, river.