Question

Pick out the proper nouns and common nouns from the following sentence:

Newton discovered the Law of Gravity.

• A. Newton - Proper Noun
• B. Newton - Common Noun
• C. Gravity - Proper Noun
• D. Law - Proper Noun

Answer 1

The correct option is A Newton - Proper Noun

Common nouns are names of people, places and things in general while proper nouns are the names of a particular person, place or thing. An important tip to identify a proper noun is that they always start with a capital letter.

Hence out of the options given only option A is the correct answer.

Option B is incorrect because 'Newton' is the name of a particular person and hence not a common noun.

Options C and D are incorrect because 'gravity' and 'law' are not specific but rather general.