Yeah I think this one is pretty much what it says on the tin.

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      22 days ago

      Is it? Seems like it being the proper noun of this, it would be separated in proper grammar by a comma.

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          22 days ago

          I had a question mark. I can’t tell if you are trying to be unhelpful or just trolling.

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            Ok. Since you seem to be genuine, I’ll put in the work.

            1. Proper nouns don’t get automatically separated; they get capitalized.

            2. Maybe I’m reading too deep into “the proper noun of this”, but a proper noun is not generally a structural component of a sentence. Properness is an aspect of a noun.

            3. ‘True love’ is the ‘subject’ of the sentence, but it is not normally considered a proper noun. A proper noun is the title or name of a noun, such as: Brian, Marseilles, or Shake Weight.

            4. You may be misapplying the rule about directly addressing someone (or something). You would write: “Jimmy, get down from there,” or “Get down from there, Jimmy,” but you wouldn’t write “I’m going to, Walmart, for groceries.” This usage is often a proper noun, but it doesn’t need to be, such as in “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”

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              22 days ago

              Yeah meant subject, meh, my English teacher grandmother would be as equally frustrated with me as she has always been.

              But also I would still argue True Love is a proper noun of a named thing. We all recognize it as a component of a spell or a macguffin of a story.

              So in this case I am providing a definition of a word such as one for a spelling bee. Thus it introduces a pause when spoken.