No, the compound noun 'shortstop' is a common noun, a general word for a position in Baseball.
A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing. A proper noun for the common noun 'shortstop' is the name of the person holding that position or the Shortstop Deli in Ithaca, NY.
No, the compound noun 'shortstop' is a common noun, a general word for a position in baseball.A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing. A proper noun for the common noun 'shortstop' is the name of the person holding that position or the Shortstop Deli in Ithaca, NY.
The shortstop caught the ball. The pitcher caught the ball and threw it to the shortstop for the out.
A compound noun can be a common or a proper noun. The only difference is that a compound noun is a word made of two or more individual words that form a word with a meaning of its own, such as blacktop or shortstop. Examples:common - properblack - Black & White Scotch Whiskeytop - Top Hat (1935) with Fred Astair and Ginger Rogersblacktop - Warner's Blacktop and Paving Companyshort - Martin Shortstop - Stop & Shop Supermarketshortstop - Shortstop Sporting Goods
Yes, shortstop is a common noun.
The baseball player played shortstop in the game.
tennis Baseball/shortstop
Mike Burke - shortstop - was born in 1854.
Mike Jacobs - shortstop - was born in 1877.
Rudy Hernández - shortstop - was born in 1951.
Snoopy plays shortstop .
Ed Glenn - shortstop - was born in 1875-10.
Tom Carey - shortstop - was born in 1846-03.