Common Nouns and Proper Nouns ESL

Common and Proper
Nouns

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Multiple Choice

What is a noun?

• an action word

• a descriptive word

• a person, place, or thing

• a word that describes a verb

Common nouns describe common things:

●car

●cup

●shoes

●shirt

●phone

●teacher

●person

●girl

●boy

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a common noun?

• Christopher Columbus

• table

• Ms. Caro

• Target

Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT a common noun?

• shoes

• pants

• paper

• Dr. Suess

Open Ended

Write a sentence using a common noun:

Proper nouns describe SPECIFIC
things:

●Toyota

●Nike

●Ms. Williams
●AT&T

●Matthew

●Stanley Cup

●Morphe

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a proper noun?

• Europe

• country

• state

• town

Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT a proper noun:

• Mansfield

• Asia

• house

• Keurig

Open Ended

Write a sentence using a proper noun: