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From my daughter's homework...

Identify the nouns.

"My name is Ruby and I am a really rude lady."

So, name and lady are nouns for sure, but what about Ruby? It seems to describe 'name', does that it make it an adjective?

Is this a reasonable KS2 question?

In reply to lowersharpnose:

It's a noun.

Saying 'this fruit is an apple' is just specifying the particular type of fruit, not describing fruit as such.

In reply to lowersharpnose:

It's a proper noun. A proper noun refers to a specific thing whereas a common noun refers to a class or one of a class of things.

So "city" is a common noun whereas "London" is a proper noun.
"Dog" is a noun but "Labrador" is a proper noun but could also be a common noun!

At your daughter's stage I'd stick to calling them both nouns.

In reply to tlm:

The sentence structure is different,

My name is Ruby.

has the same the structure as

My apple is red.

Which is why I though that perhaps Ruby was similar to red.

Is it that names themselves are nouns, even when they are not associated with physical type noun?

In reply to lowersharpnose:

yeah - names are always proper nouns.

In reply to Bob:

Thanks. I think I was confusing myself with "My apple is red", "My name is Ruby" comparison.

In reply to lowersharpnose:
My name is Ruby: Ruby is a proper noun
My name is silly: silly is an adjective.
My name is Silly: Silly is a proper noun. Who said random capitalisation doesn't matter?

For completeness, I is a pronoun, so you have - name and lady as nouns, Ruby as a proper noun and I as a pronoun

In reply to lowersharpnose:







My fruit is an apple
My name is Ruby

Better if it's laid out like that?

I don't think it can even be possible for a name to be anything other than a proper noun. Anyone care to rebut that postulation?

In reply to crayefish:

My hoover is a Hoover

In reply to nniff:



i Did!

In reply to nniff:

President Hoover hoovers Hoover dam with his Hoover hoover.