Sugar Sugar Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. The various types of sugar are derived from different sources. Simple sugars are called monosaccharides and include glucose (also known as dextrose), fructose, and galactose. "Table sugar" or "granulated sugar" refers to sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose. In the body, sucrose is hydrolysed into fructose and glucose. Sucrose is used in prepared foods (e.g. cookies and cakes), is sometimes added to commercially available beverages, and may be used by people as a sweetener for foods (e.g. toast and cereal) and beverages
Proper noun and the like, some proper names contain no noun and are not formed as noun phrases (the film "Being There"; "Hi De Ho" as a nickname for Cab Calloway and as the title of a film about him). Proper names are also referred to (by linguists) as "naming expressions". Sometimes they are called simply "names"; but that term is also used more broadly (as in ""chair" is the name for something we sit on"); the latter type of name is called a "common name" to distinguish it from a "proper name". Common nouns are frequently used as components of proper