WEEK 16 - GRAMMAR - COMMON AND PROPER NOUNS

COMMON AND PROPER NOUNS

Common nouns name any person, place, thing, or idea.

They are not capitalized unless they come at the beginning of a sentence.

Proper nouns are the names of specific people, places, things, or ideas.

Proper nouns should always be capitalized.

Common Noun	Proper Noun
man	Lionel Messi
river	Piraí River
car	Toyota
doctor	Doctor Smith
town	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
school	Saint George School

ACTIVITIES

1.    Think of some proper nouns for each common noun below

Common Noun	Proper Noun
store	Ventura Mall
candy
drink
movie
restaurant
school

2.    Write the words from the box below to their correct group:

dog	Martha	family	fish	Charlie
Canada	November	winter	guitar	Friday

Common Noun	Proper Noun

3.    Rewrite the paragraph correctly, and capitalize the proper nouns you find.

robin and pam are sisters, and they live in miami. Their family got a new puppy on monday. Her name is daisy. She is a guide dog, and she will help blind people when she grows up. Pam, robin, and their parents raise the puppy. Every saturday they go to a dog training class in the park.