Hi All!

This is about an overlooked but inherent meaning of common nouns.

Common nouns are a particular group of nouns. Common nouns name general things. For example, in the sentence, ‘The drinks are water and wine’, the word ‘drinks’ is a common noun. But, it stands for the nouns ‘water’ and ‘wine’, and therefore it functions as a pronoun too. In a sentence like ‘Those boys are called John and Tom’, the word ‘boys’ is a common noun, but, it can also replace ‘John and Tom’ and therefore it is a pronoun too. {We can see that the common noun [boys, drinks] is an umbrella term. It can also be called a head word. It is a general term and the nouns it replaces are particular examples [John and Tom, water and wine]}.

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