What's in a Name?

What’s in a name? Your all. Each individual is baptized with a name, and registered with a name in his/her birth certificate. Likewise, your name shows in identifications and death certificate. You can’t get away without a name because it represents who you are, whether it be your aliases or a pseudo.

Oftentimes, names come with meaning and suggests a story with it – the life it decodes. Others use names they call power names. Some writers have their assumed names, as well. Names are precious to each being they represent. In the Bible, it says that God will always remember the chosen ones, and write their names that wouldn’t be erased for all eternity.

In everyday language, names are classified under nouns. Usually, nouns stand as subjects of a sentence. Include this list in your vocabulary:

1. Nouns are names. Names are nouns. Nouns are names of persons, places, and things. They are qualities, ideas and activities. The nouns are usually the subjects in sentences. Subclasses of nouns: concrete, abstract, proper, common, collective, count, noncount

2. Concrete Look around you. What can you see? What can you hold?
These are the examples of concrete nouns :chairs computer watch paper

3. Abstract Think of ideas and qualities. Abstract nouns also include many gerunds.
Courage, writing, respect are examples.

4. Proper nouns Proper nouns are specific names of persons (Riza, Wenzi), places (Philippines), and things (Mitsubishi pen). Proper nouns must be capitalized.

5. Common Common nouns are general names. Book is an example; it is both a common noun and a concrete noun. Common nouns are not capitalized. Laptop, pen

6. Collective Collective nouns form groups or units: choir, faculty family jury class committee

A collective noun taken as a singular unit will need a singular verb. A collective noun taken as individual members of a group will get a plural verb.

7. Noncount nouns

Noncount nouns are also referred to as mass nouns. Use less as a modifier of a noncount noun.

8. Count We use fewer as a modifier of a count noun. 1-10…

9. grammar a set of prescriptive rules often associated with writing. Writing is a learned activity. A cultural artifact, edited English; grammar rules

10. language power or articulate language, a system of words used in a particular discipline, the spoken or written human speech


What is your name? Does your name carry a special meaning with it? What would you want your power name to be? Remember how special you are! Rose flores martinez, 2010

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