Proper noun & common noun

2. NOUNS.
Proper Noun & Common Noun

3. Nouns = The names we give everything around us,
whether it is a person, an event, a place or an
object and so on.
 Proper Nouns are the names of
specific people and places, names of
the days of weeks and months,
organizations and specific things.
 Example: SEK El Castillo, Spain, John,
September
 These nouns begin with a capital
letter.
 Common Nouns are words used to
name generic people, animals, places
and things. It is not specific, it is
common.
 Example: school, man, dog, month,
city
 These nouns do not begin with a
capital letter.

4. books The Little Red Riding Hood
Common Noun Proper Noun

5. Read this out loud
and notice the
differences between
the Common Noun
and the Proper
Noun.

6. Peter went to the store on Friday.
The family ate lunch in New York.
Emily played tag with her sister.
She went to the library on Monday.
My grandma lives in Florida.
The words in red are proper nouns, now what are the common nouns in the above sentences?
store | family | lunch | tag | sister |library | grandma

7.  The names of the continents = proper noun or common noun?
PROPER NOUN!!

8. THE NAMES OF THE PLANETS IN THE SOLAR
SYSTEM?
Proper Noun!

9. THINGS TO
REMEMBER
 Some proper nouns have more than one
word, particularly monuments, buildings
and book titles.
 For example: the Statue of Liberty, the
Cathedral of Almudena, the Bank of
Spain, the Prado Museum, Sleeping
Beauty.
 Proper nouns do not need a capital
letter at the beginning of every word in
such cases, only the really important
words have a capital letter, not the small
“joining” words (”the”, “and”, ”of”).