Question

Rewrite the following sentences from the passage. In your rewrite, replace one proper noun with a common noun of your choice. Replace one common noun with a proper noun of your choice. Identify your replacements with (P) for “proper” and (C) for “common.”

Day after day after day, the main street and the park in Midville stood deserted. Sid, my sister, and I stayed in shady corners and in front of old plastic fans that twisted back and forth, back and forth.

Answer 1

The answers is:

Wednesday (P) after Wednesday (P) after Wednesday (P), Oxford Street (P) and Hyde Park (P) in the city (C) stood deserted. My sister (C), Sid (P), and Greta (P) stayed in shady Marble Arch (P) and in front of old plastic Routemasters (P) that twisted back and forth, back and forth.

Proper nouns refer to specific people, places or things, and are capitalized. Common nouns, on the other hand, are generic, so they do not indicate particular people, places or things.

Answer 2

The correct answer is the following.

Replace one common noun with a proper noun of your choice. Identify your replacements with (P) for “proper” and (C) for “common.”

"Day after day after day, Jefferson street and the park in the city stood deserted. Sid, my sister, and I stayed in shady corners and in front of old plastic fans that twisted back and forth, back and forth."

What I did was to replace the common noun main street for the proper noun Jefferson street, and the proper noun "Midville" for the common noun "city."

In Grammatics, a common noun refers to general concepts: a street, a name. On the other hand, proper noun names specific places or people.