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Lun-14

Lun-14

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Hindi
Hi,

Nowadaysthe sun starts rising at about 5 a.m. Muslims can offer their prayers before that timei.e. before 5 a.m. When sun starts risingtheir prayer time endsi.e. they cannot offer prayer then. Todaya Muslim old man (who is blind)who lives near my houseasked me: "Daughter Lunhas the sun started rising? In case noI offer my prayer." I said: "The sun has not yet started to rise; you can offer your prayer."

My question is about the word "sun". I wonder how I should write it:
Sun
The Sun
sun
The sun

When should I write "Sun""The Sun""sun" and "The sun"?
Please enlighten me on that,

Many thanks,
Lun
 
    • In the second sentenceit should be 'the sun'not plain 'sun'. Without an articlesun is the radiation you get by lying on the beach. The object in the sky is the sun. When you're talking about earthly things like the sea and the clouds and the skymake the sun and the moon lower-case too. But when you're talking about outer spacethe Sun is a star like Sirius and Alpha Centauriso give it a capital like those.
     
    I am reminded of the Hemingway novel"The Sun Also Rises". (Worth reading).

    If you referring to the sun we see in the sky abovethen it is "the sun" as entangled has stated.
     
    Unless it's the first word in a sentenceyou would only capitalize The Sun if it was a proper namesuch as the name of a newspaper or a restaurant.
     
    Sparky Malarky said:
    Unless it's the first word in a sentenceyou would only capitalize The Sun if it was a proper namesuch as the name of a newspaper or a restaurant.
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    ThanksSM.
    I have a confusion: we don't use "the" before Indiabecause India is a proper noun. But why do we use "the" before "sun"? "Sun" is also a proper noun.:confused:
    Could you clear this upplease?
    Thanks.
     
    It's a common nounlike the sea and the skythough there's only one of them. When it is in the ranks of the starsthe Sun gets an honorary capital letter like the others. And the moonwhich you can see in the sky near the clouds and the starsbecomes the Moon when it joins Ganymede and Triton and Phobos. It's debatable whether the Sun and the Moon are then proper names. But the Netherlands and the Hilton Hotel and the Taj Mahal and the Great Barrier Reef and the Andromeda Galaxy are proper names with 'the'.
     
    The name of our star is "the Sun," not "Sun," just as the name of the seat of the International Court of Justice is "the Hague," not "Hague." That's simply the way the names are.
     
    Our sun is a star. In other constellations there may be other stars that function as a sun. But our sun is specific and is always referred to as "the sun".
     
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