Proper and Common Nouns

Nouns are:

• Words that do not name people, places or things

• Words that give a name to people, places or things, as well as abstract concepts

• Words that only define abstract objects or concepts

• None

Proper Nouns can name:

• Names of people and pets

• Generic names of things

• Names of brands

• Names of days, months and holidays

Also called special names, such as names of people, brands, pets. They always begin with a capital letter

• Proper Nouns

• Common Nouns

People's titles can become Proper Nouns if:

• They are used with names or in places of names.

• If they are preceded by a, an or the

• When they do not replace the name

Movie titles, historic events, time periods, nationalities and monuments are not Proper Nouns

• True

• False

Is the generic name for a person, place, or thing in a class or group

• Nouns

• Common Nouns

• Proper Nouns

• Abstract Nouns

Common Nouns can be classified in:

• Concrete

  Abstract

  Collective

• Possessive

  Singular

  Plural

• Abstract

  Countable

• None

Anything that is a thing can be generally classified as a common noun

• True

• False

Which of the following is not a Proper Noun

• Karla

• Michael

• dog

• Susana

Which of the following is not a Common Noun

• teacher

• cat

• lawyer

• Lucia