Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

* Proper nouns are not pluralized, even in writing.

Proper nouns, and all proper names, differ from common nouns grammatically.

Proper nouns may be used as common nouns, as members of a unique class of common nouns.

Proper nouns can also be verbed in the English language.

Proper nouns are not generally counted as English terms except when accepted into the language as an eponym-such as Geiger-Müller tube, or the English terms roentgen after Wilhelm Röntgen, and biro after László Bíró, in which case any diacritical mark is often lost.

Proper ventilation can reduce the risks, and the first legislation in the United Kingdom to govern ventilation was introduced in 1899.

Proper running technique can dramatically lower the risk of running injuries.

Proper use of barriers, such as condoms, depends on the cleanliness of surfaces of the barrier, handling can pass contamination to and from surfaces of the barrier unless care is taken.

Proper chain-of-custody records and secure storage facilities can help ensure the admissibility of digital or analog recordings by the Court.

Proper technique involves aiming the dryer such that the air does not blow onto the face or scalp, which can cause burns.

The wig must then be air dried naturally into its own hairstyle. Proper maintenance can make a human hair wig last for many years.

Proper treatment of the underlying infection of amoebic dysentery is important ; insufficiently treated amoebiasis can lie dormant for years and then lead to severe, potentially fatal, complications.

Proper irrigation management can prevent salt accumulation by providing adequate drainage water to leach added salts from the soil.

Proper placement of the limb electrodes, color coded as recommended by the American Heart Association ( a different colour scheme is used in Europe ): The limb electrodes can be far down on the limbs or close to the hips / shoulders, but they must be even ( left vs right ).

Proper column packing is important to maximize resolution: An overpacked column can collapse the pores in the beads, resulting in a loss of resolution.

Proper distance roughly corresponds to where a distant object would be at a specific moment of cosmological time, measured using a long series of rulers stretched out from our position to the object's position at that time, and which can change over time due to the expansion of the universe.

Proper lighting can enhance task performance, improve the appearance of an area, or have positive psychological effects on occupants.

Proper safety equipment such as harnesses and guardrails and procedures such as securing ladders and inspecting scaffolding can curtail the risk of occupational injuries in the construction industry.

Proper harvesting of the coconut ( the age of a coconut can be 2 to 20 months when picked ) makes a significant difference in the efficacy of the oil-making process.

Proper support for locks in a multiprocessor environment can require quite complex hardware or software support, with substantial synchronization issues.

Karelian language has three main varieties which can be considered as dialects or separate languages: Karelian Proper which comprises North Karelian and South Karelian ( including the Tver enclave dialects ), Olonets Karelian, and Lude.

Following this set of officers, the Senate as an institution can then be grouped into the Senate Proper and the Secretariat.

Proper pruning can be helpful in many ways, but should always be done with the minimum amount of live tissue removed.

Proper pruning, by cutting through branches at the right location, can do more to limit decay than wound dressing.

Proper maintenance can minimize the amount of harmful chemicals that may enter the environment.

Proper enclosures can be costly, as these are roaming animals with large space needs for their size, combined with the need to provide heat and ultraviolet light.

Proper function of the anterior pituitary and of the organs it regulates can often be ascertained via blood tests that measure hormone levels.

Proper autoclave treatment will inactivate all fungi, bacteria, viruses and also bacterial spores, which can be quite resistant.

Proper cleaning can be achieved by physical scrubbing.

Proper follow-through requires training your own sales organization, and your distributor organizations, not only in the techniques but also in good customer relations.

Proper evidence of the liquidation and succession must also be filed.

In addition to these changes, the Pope noted that his revision considerably modified other sections of the Missal, such as the Proper of Seasons, the Proper of Saints, the Common of Saints, the Ritual Masses and the Votive Masses, adding: " In all of these changes, particular care has been taken with the prayers: not only has their number been increased, so that the new texts might better correspond to new needs, but also their text has been restored on the testimony of the most ancient evidences.

* It is in this last sense, theology as an academic discipline involving rational study of Christian teaching, that the term passed into English in the fourteenth century, though it could also be used in the narrower sense found in Boethius and the Greek patristic authors, to mean rational study of the essential nature of God – a discourse now sometimes called Theology Proper.

Proper handling includes not only preventing the ball from touching the court, but also making it reach the position where the setter is standing quickly and precisely.

Proper motion may also be given by the angular changes per year in the right ascension ( μ < sub > α </ sub >) and declination ( μ < sub > δ </ sub >).

Proper hydration also prevents cramps.

Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism is also discussed in the later chapters of Warrant and Proper Function.

* Proper Mediterranean climate is present in the northeastern areas around Cap de la Nau, mostly to its North but also to its South, in diminishing grades until disappearing slightly north of Benidorm.

Marshall also noted that the Necessary and Proper Clause is listed within the powers of Congress, not the limitations.

Chief Justice Marshall also explained in this case that the Necessary and Proper Clause does not require that all federal laws be necessary and proper and that federal laws that are enacted directly pursuant to one of the express, enumerated powers granted by the Constitution need not comply with the Necessary and Proper Clause, holding that the clause " purport to enlarge, not to diminish the powers vested in the government.

Proper application of dither combats quantization noise effectively, and is commonly applied during mastering before final bit depth reduction, and also at various stages of DSP.

" Explanations and Examples of the Correct / Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People "), also called the Haerye Edition of Hunminjeongeum or simply The Haerye, is a commentary on the Hunminjeongeum, the original promulgation of hangul.

He does so by self-immolation, after receiving the Possibly Proper Death Litany ( also called the Agnostic's Prayer ).

This prayer, also called the Possibly Proper Death Litany, is uttered by one of the main characters, Madrak, to shrive a man about to commit suicide for money ( given to his family ).

The Constitution also includes the " Necessary and Proper Clause ", which grants Congress the power to " make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.

There is also a modern region by the name Finland Proper.

It borders the historical provinces of Finland Proper, Tavastia and Ostrobothnia, also the Gulf of Bothnia.

Under the Necessary and Proper Clause, it is specifically provided that the Congress shall have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution, not only its own powers but also all other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

Proper management of camber angle is a major factor in suspension design, and must incorporate not only idealized geometric models, but also real-life behavior of the components ; flex, distortion, elasticity, etc.

Proper stirrup placement, on the ball of the foot, instead of jammed " home " clear up to the arch, also lowers the risk of a rider being dragged.

The arms were supported by two unicorns Argent armed, crined and unguled Proper, gorged with a coronet Or composed of crosses patée and fleurs de lys a chain affixed thereto passing between the forelegs and reflexed over the back also Or.