Geisel adopted his Dr. Seuss pen name during his university studies at Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford. He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life, and various other publications.
Confidence votes 94.8K. A general noun is a word for a non-specific person, place, or thing. Examples of general nouns: A specific noun is a word for a specific person, place or thing. Examples: 1  parent. 2  city. 3  apple. 4  father.
comments powered by Disqus. A noun is a part of speech that names a person, place, thing, idea, action or quality. All nouns can be classified into two groups of nouns, either common or proper.1  Proper nouns refer to the individual name of a person, place or thing. noun is a part of speech that names a person, place, thing, idea, action or quality.