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Yes, apart from Proper Noun, all other forms of Nouns, including Collective Noun, Concrete Noun, Abstract Noun, Countable Noun, etc. can be Common Nouns. As long as they do not refer to anything specific, all these types of Nouns can be considered Common Noun.

As opposed to the Common Nouns, Proper Noun refers to someone, some place or something specific. The Proper Noun has to be written in a capital letter, irrespective of whether the sentence starts with that or not. On the other hand, Common Nouns are generic terms and do not need to be written in capital letters, unless it is placed at the beginning of the sentence. For example:

Siya is the topper in her class.

Here, Siya is the Proper Noun, and topper and class are Common Nouns.

Common Noun is one of the nine types of Nouns, which denotes the name of a group or a type of existing phenomenon. Like the name suggests, Common Nouns refer to any living or non-living beings, places, or abstract ideas or thoughts. As long as a word is not named anything specific, it is considered to be a Common Noun.

Synonyms and One Word Substitution often seem same as both deal with replacing the words or phrases, but they are different in usage and scope. One words substitution replaces an entire phrase or sentence with a single, precise word that conveys the same meaning. An example of this is A person who loves books – Bibliophile. On the other hand, Synonyms have the same or nearly same meaning as another word in the given context.

In simple words, One words substitution is replacing a longer phrase with a single, better concise word, while maintaining the same meaning. A few of the one words substitution words are given below:

• Instead of a place where monks live, one can say 'Monastery'
• Instead of saying a government by the people, one can say 'Democracy'
• Instead of saying a person who studies plants, one can say 'Botanist'
• Instead of saying a person who is skilled in many languages, one can say 'Polygot'

An independent clause can stand alone as a complete sentence because it has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. A dependent clause does not express a complete thought and needs an independent clause to make sense. Coordinating conjunctions connect independent clauses only.
Example:

·       Independent: She finished her homework.

·       Independent: She went to sleep.

Joined with coordinating conjunction: She finished her homework, and she went to sleep.

The main function of coordinating conjunctions is to join sentence clauses of equal importance, be it words, phrases, or independent clauses. They help maintain the balance in a sentence and make the structure smoother and more coherent. For example- She cleaned the room and arranged the books.