Common and Proper Nouns

Common and Proper Nouns

Nouns • What is a noun? • A noun is a person, place, or thing. • The noun is the subject in a sentence.

Common Nouns • Common nouns name ANY person, place or thing. baseball school singer

Proper Nouns • Proper nouns name a SPECIFIC person, place, or thing and begin with a capital letter. NY Yankees Xavier University Imagine Dragons

Common or Proper? guitar  ____ Dancing with the Stars  ____ Santa Claus  ____ juice  ____

Common or Proper? toothpaste  ____ Advil  ____ Italy  ____ snowflake  ____

Common Nouns “Marty Preston is exploring the hills behind his family’s house with he comes across a beagle.” (cover) “Marty begins to suspect that Shiloh is being mistreated by his owner.” (cover) “Ma comes around to the trunk of the pine tree, unfastens the wire that holds the fencing closed, and lets herself in.” (73).

Proper Nouns “Marty begins to suspect that Shiloh is being mistreated by his owner.” (cover) “After we finish Sistersville, we do the Friendly route, but as the Jeep gets up near Shiloh, my heart starts to pound.” (23) “I saw Mrs. Howard yesterday and she said Davis was back from Tennessee, wanting to know when you boys could get together.” (49)

Common and Proper Nouns