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.
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
The shortstop caught the ball. The pitcher caught the ball and threw it to the shortstop for the out.
Yes, shortstop is a common noun.
The baseball player played shortstop in the game.
tennis Baseball/shortstop
Mike Jacobs - shortstop - was born in 1877.
Mike Burke - shortstop - was born in 1854.
Rudy Hernández - shortstop - was born in 1951.
Snoopy plays shortstop .
Tom Carey - shortstop - was born in 1846-03.
Ed Glenn - shortstop - was born in 1875-10.