Common and Proper Nouns

What is a noun?

• A person, place, or thing.

• The telling part of a sentence.

• The naming part of a sentence.

• A period

What is a common noun?

• A funny dance.

• A person, place, or thing that DOES start with a capital.

• A cool new song.

• A person, place, or thing that does NOT start with a capital.

What is a proper noun?

• A person, place, or thing that does NOT start with a capital.

• Our new handshake

• A person, place, or thing that DOES start with a capital.

• Mrs. Thomas's nickname

Find the common nouns:

Jack went to the park after school.

• Jack

• park and school

• went

• after

Find the common nouns:

Jack played on the swings at the park.

• Jack

• park and swings

• played

• on the

Find the common nouns:

The slide was wet from the rain.

• from

• wet

• the

• slide and rain

Find the common nouns:

Lillian jumped on the trampoline at the park.

• Lillian

• trampoline and park

• the

• jumped

Find the common nouns:

The boy rode his bike to new park.

• The

• rode

• boy, bike, and park

• new

Find the common nouns:

The apple fell from the big tree at the small park.

• apple, tree, and park

• fell

• small

• from

Find the proper nouns:

The Springfield Dickerson Park Zoo had 20 tigers in one exhibit.

• Springfield Dickerson Park Zoo

• tigers

• one

• exhibit