| Here, 'he' is endophoric because it refers forwards to the proper noun Harry and 'her' refers back to the noun boss. |
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| One was antonomasia, the usually derisive practice of describing an individual by a certain characteristic, then making it into a proper noun. |
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| For fear of this, they want to forestall the conversion of certain proper noun trademarks into common count nouns. |
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| Before you run outside disguised as a proper noun, or convert your blog style to baroque Dickensian, let's consider what is at stake. |
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| If a word inside a sentence begins with a capital letter, it is a proper noun! |
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| But be careful: sentences always begin with a capital letter, even if the first word is not a proper noun! |
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| The proper noun is therefore the particular, individual name that we give to a person, an animal or a thing. |
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| Note: This is a specific instance of an international standard and is therefore capitalized as a proper noun. |
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| This could be a proper noun or another grammatical type as the original word does not need to begin with a capital letter. |
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| British spellings must be Americanised even when they occur in a proper noun. |
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| Name of the court that sentenced him Basmanny Soud became a proper noun for that phenomenon. |
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| Air quotes didn't quite land on that proper noun, but they hovered close by. |
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| So you would consider it a success if Flipnote as a proper noun fell into common use. |
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| A true all-in-one reference work, Le Petit Larousse Illustré is the only dictionary to include both common and proper noun sections, separated by its famous 'pink pages' of quotations, proverbs and historic sayings. |
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| How does a proper noun, a principle, a judgment criterion, or a proposal acquire the force necessary to influence a large number of individuals, even though it is often in competition with others? |
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| Each translation is completed by a translator-specialist, proofread by a second translator-specialist, a third person checks spelling, every number and proper noun. |
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| It is in this tradition that the term proper noun, or proper name, is used for a name, and noun, general noun, or common noun is used for an appellative. |
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| Every figure and proper noun is checked individually. |
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| As a proper noun, The Kirk is an informal name for the Church of Scotland, the country's national church. |
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| United Kingdom, for example, is a proper name with the common noun kingdom as its head, and North Carolina is headed by the proper noun Carolina. |
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| Capital letters are used as the first letter of a sentence, a proper noun, or a proper adjective. |
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| The proper noun when spoken can be confused for the common noun. |
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| In fact, Junction Gore is so important in our History that its name, which is usually just a simple common noun, has become a proper noun and appeared already on maps in the XIX century. |
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| Its name may derive from Capbreton near Bayonne, or more probably from the word Breton, the French adjective form of the proper noun Bretagne, the French historical region. |
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