Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or ...

Proper nouns always begin with a capital letter. A common noun, on the other hand, is the name of a group or class of people, places, or things. Let’s put them side by side: ...

The syntactically definable category of proper nouns is only a subclass of the orthographically definable class. Many capitalized nouns, e.g. Kodak and Purex, are not members of the syntactically ...

This paper studies the processes whereby small children (17-24 mo.) learn common and proper nouns and learn how English distinguishes between them. Our thesis is that within certain classes of objects ...

For example, we are open Monday’s to Friday’s. In order to pluralise a regular noun all you usually need is to add an ‘s’. Therefore, the correct version is we are open Mondays to Fridays.