Name: Date: 1g Proper and Common Nouns Worksheet proper noun names a specific person, place, thing or idea. ‘Acommon noun does not name a particular person, place, thing or Idea. It does not begin with a capital letter. Directions: |dentify the underlined word in each sentence as a Proper or common noun. Write (?) for proper and (C) for common. Example A: The Yankees are a good baseball team.__ Answer: P| 1. The Lakers play basketball tonight. 2. The family will eat together at the table, 3. The bear climbed up the tree. 4. Ilive in the state of Washington. 5. We traveled down the Mississippi River. 6. The Texas Longhorns are a good football team. 7. We will play soccer at the park. 8. I will walk home after school. 9. We saw a lion at the z00. 10. We went to Lake Arrowhead for vacation. 11. The Boston Celtics won many championship 12, We need to prepare for going back to schoolCommon Noun [e655 IL. Use cman, pooper, ond possessive nouns Common and Proper Nouns ‘Common nouns name a person, place, or thing. They do not begin with a capital letter. Proper nouns name a specific person, place, or thing. They always begin with a capital letter. ef Directions: Write a proper noun to go with each common noun Proper Noun truck Ford restaurant park girl teacher school store movie boy dog river cartoon © www 2ndgradeworksheetsnet 1Common Nouns ‘A.common noun is a person, place or thing. A common noun does not need to be capitalized. A proper noun is a specific person, place or thing. A proper noun always begins with o capital letter. DIRECTIONS: Read each sentence. If he bolded noun in each sentence is “common.” Ifit is a proper noun, circle “proper.” My nelghbor has an in-ground pool Loft my purse at work My birthday is in november. The lorgest country inthe world i russia Ourlocal baseball eam is called the blue erabs. | always do my wing on the computer. Koren brought cookies to class. My favorite kind of apple is granny smith >My father has a job with boelng Llke for my cell phone to have a very big screen. Allof our electronics are samsung. Rewite the proper nouns, using correct capitalization, www.EasyTeacherWorksheets.com ‘common ‘common common proper proper proper proper proper proper proper proper proper proper properName : Common Nouns wordin a sentence. COMMON NOUN: iti PROPER NOUN: Jane COMMON NOUN: dog PROPER NOUN: Beagle ‘answer on the line. 1. Hove that restaurant. 2.Inever have homework in math. 3. We shop at Safeway. 4, Mrs, Miller is my neighbor. 5. llike to use colored pencils. 6. Ilive in Oregon. 7, That band played in the park yesterday. 8. Is that dog a German Shephard? 9. | got a job with Goldman Sachs www.EasyTeacherWorksheets.com noun can be a common noun or a proper noun. Proper nouns are the names of specific people, places, things, or ideas. A proper noun always begins with o capital eter. Common nouns are not specific, They are no! names, so they are only capitalized if they are the first DIRECTIONS: Is the underlined noun common or proper? Write yourName: Common and Proper Nouns Determine whether each noun is a common noun or a proper noun. + Ifthe noun is common, write common noun on the line. + Ifthe noun is proper, re-write the noun on the line using correct capitalization. examples: waterfall. += common noun niagara fails Niagara Falls 1. march 2 month 3. day — 4. tuesday 5. holiday 4. christmas 7. cereal 8. cheetios % dt. gomez 10. doctor Maly 12, boston 13, skeet 14, mainsteet —_ 18. buger king _ 16. restaurant 17. slate crock 18. creek 1%. dog - 20. snoopy % Challenge: Write a complete sentence that has a proper noun and a common noun init Super Teacher Worksheels - wow superleacherwarshaatscom