What are 2 examples of a common noun?

Answer 1

Examples of common nouns:

• teacher, a person who teaches or instructs; someone who does this as a profession.
• continent, one of the large land masses on earth; a mainland as distinguished from islands or peninsulas.
• book, a written or printed work on paper, usually bound together with covers.
• fear, a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, injury, or pain.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, we can't list all of the nouns in this space. We do have room to list examples of nouns from a to z.

A noun is a word for a person, a place, or a thing. Examples are:

• Abraham Lincoln
• baby
• California
• coast
• Department of State
• danger
• east
• elephant
• friend
• field
• grapes
• gratitude
• hero
• Harry Potter
• island
• invitation
• janitor
• jealousy
• knee
• kitchen
• Lake Luzerne
• lamb
• mother
• mountain
• night
• nachos
• onion
• opinion
• peninsula
• party
• quality
• quagmire
• rock
• Rock of Gibralter
• star
• swamp
• teacher
• train
• uncle
• umpire
• value
• view
• water
• weapon
• x-ray
• year
• yellow
• zoo
• zero

Answer 3

A common noun is a general word for any person, place, or thing.
Examples:

• apple
  
• apostrophe
  
• banana
  
• boy
  
• continent
  
• chunk
  
• donkey
  
• doughnut
  
• ear
  
• elephant
  
• flower
  
• friend
  
• gasoline
  
• guess
  
• hemisphere
  
• hill
  
• inch
  
• island
  
• joke
  
• jelly
  
• knee
  
• kitchen
  
• letter
  
• length
  
• man
  
• memory
  
• nylon
  
• noodle
  
• ocean
  
• opinion
  
• parade
  
• paper
  
• question
  
• queen
  
• rainbow
  
• raspberry
  
• state
  
• statement
  
• turtle
  
• trouble
  
• uncle
  
• value
  
• valve
  
• water
  
• west
  
• x-ray
  
• yellow
  
• youth
  
• zebra
  
• zero

Answer 4

A common noun is a general word for any person, place, or thing.

EXAMPLE SENTENCES (common nouns in bold):

1. I'm expecting my sister. (person)
2. I hope you have a good time. (thing)

Answer 5

person, place, or thing........

Mom, San Antonio, or car