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Proper adjective
In English orthography, the term proper adjective is sometimes applied to adjectives that take initial capital letters, and the term common adjective to those that do not. These terms are used informally only; they are not used by grammarians or linguists. For example, a person from Boston is Bostonian. ''Bostonian'' is a proper adjective.
==Origin of the terms==
The term "proper noun" denotes a noun that, grammatically speaking, identifies a specific unique entity; for example, ''England'' is a proper noun, because it is a name for a specific country, where as ''dog'' is not a proper noun — it is a "common noun" — because it is a term for any member of a group of animals.
In English orthography, most proper nouns are capitalized, while most common nouns are not. As a result, the term "proper noun" has come to mean, in lay usage, "a noun that is capitalized", and "common noun" to mean "a noun that is not capitalized". What's more, English adjectives that derive from proper nouns are usually capitalized. These two things, taken together, have led to the creation of the lay terms "proper adjective" and "common adjective" with meanings analogous to the lay meanings of "proper noun" and "common noun". Proper adjectives are just capitalized adjectives.
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