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Select the sentence containing a Proper Noun

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UPTET 2026 Paper 2 Social Studies Question Paper (3-Jul-2026) (Shift 1)
The correct answer is

Mumbai receives heavy rainfall every year.

A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing and is always capitalised.

"Mumbai" is the name of a specific city, which makes it a proper noun.

The nouns in the other sentences, such as river, birds, nest, and teacher, are common nouns naming general things rather than specific ones.

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