Materi Proper Nouns (Names) | Contoh Lengkap

Materi Proper Nouns (Names) | Contoh Lengkap - Proper naoun adalah spesial nama yang digunakan untuk nama orang, tempat, organisasi seperti John, Marie, London, France or Sony. Sebuah nama memanglah noun, tetapi propoer noun adalah special noun. Dan Properpunya aturan spesial.

common noun	proper noun
man, boy	John
woman, girl	Mary
country, town	England, London
company	Ford, Sony
shop, restaurant	Maceys, McDonalds
month, day of the week	January, Sunday
book, film	War & Peace, Titanic

Using Capital Letters with Proper Nouns

Kita selalu menggunakan Capital Letter untuk huruf pertama  dari  proper noun (name). Termasuk names dari people, places, companies, days of the week and months. 

For example:

• They like John. (not *They like john.)
• I live in England.
• She works for Sony.
• The last day in January is a Monday.
• We saw Titanic in the Odeon Cinema.

Proper Nouns without THE

Kita tidak bisa menggunakan "The" pada nama orang

For example:

first names	Bill (not *the Bill)
	Hilary
surnames	Clinton
	Gates
full names	Hilary Gates

Kita juga tidak dibolehkan menggunakan "the" pada nama perusahaan 

For example:

• Renault, Ford, Sony, EnglishClub.com
• General Motors, Air France, British Airways
• Warner Brothers, Brown & Son Ltd

Pada umumnya kita tidak menggunkan "The" for shops, banks, hotels atau nama lainnya sesudah nama founder or orang lainnya (with -'s or -s). For example:

 

shops	Harrods, Marks & Spencer, Maceys
banks	Barclays Bank
hotels, restaurants	Steve's Hotel, Joe's Cafe, McDonalds
churches, cathedrals	St John's Church, St Peter's Cathedral

Pada umumnya juga kita tidak menggunakan  "the" untuk nama tempat

For example:

 

towns	Washington (not *the Washington), Paris, Tokyo
states, regions	Texas, Kent, Eastern Europe
countries	England, Italy, Brazil
continents	Asia, Europe, North America
islands	Corsica
mountains	Everest

Exception! Jika nama itu memang adalah paket yang disertai  "The"  misalnya  "States","Kingdom", "Republic" etc, nah ini kita bisa menggunkan  "the":

states	the United States, the US, the United States of America, the USA
kingdom	the United Kingdom, the UK
republic	the French Republic

Kita juga tidak bisa menggunkan "the" pada  "President/Doctor/Mr etc + Name":

the president, the king	President Bush (not *the President Bush)
the captain, the detective	Captain Kirk, Detective Colombo
the doctor, the professor	Doctor Well, Dr Well, Professor Dolittle
my uncle, your aunt	Uncle Jack, Aunt Jill
	Mr Gates (not *the Mr Gates), Mrs Clinton, Miss Black

Lihat contoh kalimat ini :

• I wanted to speak to the doctor.
• I wanted to speak to Doctor Brown.
• Who was the president before President Kennedy?

Kita tidak bisa menggunkan "the" with "Lake/Mount + Name":

the lake	Lake Victoria
the mount	Mount Everest

Lihat contoh kalimat ini :

• We live beside Lake Victoria. We have a fantastic view across the lake.

Pada umunya juga kita tidak boleh menggunkan "the" for roads, streets, squares, parks etc:

streets etc	Oxford Street, Trenholme Road, Fifth Avenue
squares etc	Trafalgar Square, Oundle Place, Piccadilly Circus
parks etc	Central Park, Kew Gardens

Proper Nouns with THE

Pada umumnya kita menggunkan "the" nama negara seperti  "States","Kingdom", "Republic" etc:

States	The United States of America/the USA
Kingdom	The United Kingdom/the UK
Republic	The French Republic

Kita menggunakan  "the" untuk  canals, rivers, seas and oceans dan lain sebagainya :

canals	the Suez Canal
rivers	the River Nile, the Nile
seas	the Mediterranean Sea, the Mediterranean
oceans	the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific

 

Kita menggunakan "the" untuk nama umum seperti people and places:

people (families, for example)	the Clintons
countries	the Philippines, the United States
island groups	the Virgin Islands, the British Isles
mountain ranges	the Himalayas, the Alps

Coba perhatikan kalimat ini :

• I saw the Clintons today. It was Bill's birthday.
• Trinidad is the largest island in the West Indies.
• Mount Everest is in the Himalayas.

Kita menggunakan "the" pada  sorts of names misalnya :

hotels, restaurants	the Ritz Hotel, the Peking Restaurant
banks	the National Westminster Bank
cinemas, theatres	the Royal Theatre, the ABC Cinema
museums	the British Museum, the National Gallery
buildings	the White House, the Crystal Palace
newspapers	the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Post
organisations	the United Nations, the BBC, the European Union

 

Kita menggunakan  "the" for names made with "of":

• the Tower of London
• the Gulf of Siam
• the Tropic of Cancer
• the London School of Economics
• the Bank of France
• the Statue of Liberty

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