I'm going with Yes or so I was taught. North Pole is a proper noun although usually reserved for "Santa Claus" letters. Arctic region for the north and Antarctic for the South Pole is more formal.
The North Pole is, indeed, a proper noun. A north pole, is a common noun.
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Yep. The north obviously, and the south. Additionally, you'll have the North Pole and South Pole proper, as well as the North Magnetic Pole and South Magnetic Pole.
Yes, it is written North Pole. It is capitalized because it is the name of a place. Names of specific places are proper nouns, which are always capitalized. So North Pole is capitalized just like New Hampshire, South Korea, Sahara Desert or Mississippi River.
A proper noun is typically a specific person or similar concept, and usually spelled with a capital letter. * Barack Obama * University of Texas * Apple Macintosh * North Dakota A common noun is less specific and usually spelled with a lower case letter * the president (of what? Which one?) * the university (which one?) * an apple (the fruit) * north Examples of the difference; I grew up in the state [common noun] of Virginia [proper noun], but I went to college [common noun] at the University of Maryland [proper noun] in the city [common noun] of College Park [proper noun].
There are no lions at the North Pole, nor is North Pole a language.
The compound, proper noun North Pole is a concrete noun, a word for a physical location, a specific point on a map.Note: There are two definitions of the North Pole. One is the north magnetic pole, which is a magnetic phenomenon which changes daily depending on changes under the Earth's crust. The other is is a north terrestrial pole, which is the fixed point that references the top of the Earth. There is no actual 'pole' at either physical location.
The noun 'longitude' is a common noun, a general word for the imaginary lines that run between the North and South Poles to measure east-west position of the Earth.A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing. The noun Earth is a proper noun, the name of a planet; the nouns North Pole and South Pole are proper nouns, the names of specific places.
North Africa is the proper noun, the name of a specific region of the continent of Africa.
Proper noun- it is the name of one specific place.
Polaris, like the name of the star, is a proper noun.
North America is a proper noun, the name of a specific place. The common noun for North America is continent. A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing. North America is a specific place, a continent.
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The word 'polar' is not a noun, it's an adjective, a word that describes a noun. The noun form for polar is 'pole', a common noun. Any common noun can become a proper noun if it is used for the name of someone or something, such as the movie 'Beyond the Pole' (2009) or Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (1556-1558). Even the adjective polar is a proper noun in the movie title 'Polar Express' (2004); the name of a book, play, or movie is a proper noun.
Yes, the compound noun "North Dakota" is a proper noun, the name of a specific U.S. state.A proper noun is always capitalized.
The common noun for the proper noun 'North America' is continent.
Yep. The north obviously, and the south. Additionally, you'll have the North Pole and South Pole proper, as well as the North Magnetic Pole and South Magnetic Pole.
No, North Dakota is a proper noun, the name of a specific place.