Thank you for publishing my letter regarding Transgender Day of Visibility in last week's paper. Unfortunately, an edit was made that I believe is both incorrect and disturbing. I wrote ...

Remember, you must consider: the gender of the noun the role the noun plays in the sentence, and therefore the case needed Look at the following sentence: Meine Mutter hat eine Schwester.

There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.