Which category includes Mississippi River and Muscogee Creek?

Which category includes Mississippi River and Muscogee Creek?

• A. Names of buildings, monuments, bridges, and tunnels
• B. Names of bodies of water
• C. Cities, countries and continents
• D. Proper nouns and adjectives

Answer: (B)

Think about what the names point to. Mississippi River names a natural water feature—a large river. Muscogee Creek also refers to a water feature, a creek. So both belong to the category of names of bodies of water. The other options don’t fit: buildings and monuments are man-made structures, cities/countries/continents are places, and proper nouns and adjectives describe a grammatical category rather than the thing named.

Think about what the names point to. Mississippi River names a natural water feature—a large river. Muscogee Creek also refers to a water feature, a creek. So both belong to the category of names of bodies of water. The other options don’t fit: buildings and monuments are man-made structures, cities/countries/continents are places, and proper nouns and adjectives describe a grammatical category rather than the thing named.