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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Is the underlined word in this sentence a common or proper noun? Thomas Stevens rode his bicycle around the world about 100 years ago. ( the underlined word is bicycle )

OpenStudy (anonymous):

One way you can tell if a word is a proper noun is that it would be capitalized. Bicycle is not a proper noun, also because it is a thing; it is not a specific thing, its just a bicycle.

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