There are also certain combinations of words and compound nouns that are often regarded as one common noun; for example, ‘ice cream’, ‘master of ceremonies’, ’20 percent’, ‘per diem’.

When there’s more of one thing, we refer to the term, “collective noun” to describe the group. When I was a kid, I ran around with my “gang.” We were the guys that played sandlot ...

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 ...

Finally, some problems closely related to the interpretation of common nouns, namely the problems of kinds, genericity, and topicality, are discussed. It is shown how these notions are related in the ...