Simple dialogue
-Storycups[me] : Have you ever heard of a noun?
Subscribers[maybe you] : Yes, but I don't know it well. What is exactly a noun?
-Storycups[me] : Do you want to know the meaning of a noun?
Subscribers[maybe you] : Yes, I do.
-Storycups[me] : Okay, I'm going to explain it. a noun is 'a name'?
Subscribers[maybe you] : Just a name? Whose name?
-Storycups[me] : Names of everything. Do you have your friends?
Subscribers[maybe you] : Of course. I have many friends; James, Michael, Sally, Sophie, Joe, Mike, and so on....
-Storycups[me] : The names of your friends are 'proper nouns(고유명사)'.
a proper noun starts with a capital letter. For example Canada, Europe, America, Australia.
When you write a capital letter in a sentence, you should write 'is' instead of 'are'.
such as :
-Colombia is(o)
-Iran is(o)
-China is(o)
-Norway are(x)
Even though you use 'is' instead of 'are', you can't write 'a' in front of a proper noun.
ex) A Egypt is(x) / Egypt is(o)
A Russia is(x) / Russia is(o)
A Greenland is(x) / Greenland is(o)
A Indonesia is(x) / Indonesia is(o)
Subscribers[maybe you] : What about a plural noun?
-Storycups[me] : No, you can't write '-s,-es' behind a proper noun.
Subscribers[maybe you] : Hey, What about your name? I can see '-s' at the end of your name.
-Storycups[me] : Oh~ you're right. Let me explain it.
If Storycups means 'a storycup + a storycup + a storycup + ....' , you should write a verb 'mean' instead of 'means'.
However, Storycups is just my name(a proper noun); Storycups ≠ a storycup + a storycup + a storycup +...
So you should write sigular verb such as 'is, means, writes'.
Subscribers[maybe you] : I understand what you mean. Thank you.
-Storycups[me] : My pleaure.
요약
명사는 모든 사람과 사물의 이름입니다.
사람과 국가의 이름처럼 세상에 단 하나뿐인 것을 가리킬 때는 특히 고유명사라고 합니다.
고유명사는 첫 글자는 대문자로 시작하고, 단수취급합니다.
복수명사 설명
그럼 '스토리컵스'도 복수명사일까요?
만약 스토리컵+스토리컵+스토리컵의 의미라면 복수명사가 맞습니다.
하지만 여기서 스토리컵스는 저의 이름입니다.
그래서 스토리컵스는 뒤에 -s 가 붙어도 복수명사가 아닌 고유명사이기 때문에 동사는 단수 동사를 써야합니다.
이번 글도 도움이 되었으면 합니다. 감사합니다.
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