{"id":71713,"date":"2019-08-21T08:26:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71713"},"modified":"2019-08-21T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:26:17","slug":"common-noun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/common-noun\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Noun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A common noun<\/strong> is one which denotes a class of things, such as <strong>dog, pencil, boy, tree or book<\/strong>. It does not refer to a particular person or thing.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon was a wise king.<br \/>\nAlice is a clever girl.<br \/>\nJohn is a boy.<\/p>\n<p>In the above examples, Solomon, Alice and John refer to particular persons. These are called proper nouns. While king, boy and girl refer to the class or kind to which these proper nouns belong. These are called common nouns.<\/p>\n<p>Common nouns include what are called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/collective-noun\/\">collective nouns<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/abstract-  noun\/\">abstract nouns.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common noun is one which denotes a class of things, such as dog, pencil, boy, tree or book. It does not refer to a particular person or thing. Solomon was a wise king.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[312,793,794,792],"class_list":["post-71713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-collective-nouns","tag-common-noun","tag-common-nouns","tag-noun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71714,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71713\/revisions\/71714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}