This document defines and provides examples of common nouns and proper nouns. Common nouns name general people, places, or things and are not capitalized, while proper nouns name specific people, places, or organizations and are always capitalized. The document provides rules for capitalization and examples of common and proper nouns for students to practice identifying and writing with the correct capitalization.

1. Common and Proper Nouns

2. Definitions
• Noun- a word that names a person,
place, animal, idea or thing.

3. • Common noun - names any
person place or thing: sister,
museum, house, school, shirt,
father, lady

4. • Proper noun- the name or title
of a specific person, place or
organization: Aunt Ida, Brazil,
House of Representatives,
Mount Mayon, Miss Mailyn

5. Examples of common nouns
• sister
• brother
• table
• floor
• school
• playground

6. Examples of proper nouns
• Dr. Milligan
• Alfred
• Markham School
• President Duterte
• Days of the week
• Months of the year

7. Rules
• In English we capitalize all proper
nouns, including days of the week,
months of the year and nationalities.
• In English we do not capitalize
common nouns.

8. Practice: Below, you will find a list of common
nouns and proper nouns. Write them correctly as
your teacher dictates them to you, capitalizing the
proper nouns and writing the common nouns with
lower case letters.
summer new york john aaron
home dodger stadium
california park andrew
mexico july saturday

9. More practice: Below, you will find a list of
common nouns and proper nouns. Write them
correctly as your teacher dictates them to you,
capitalizing the proper nouns and writing the common
nouns with lower case letters.
january boxer
foot monday tuesday
ms. mulligan game america