Name _______________________________ Date __________________

Common Nouns and Proper Nouns

Common nouns are words that name people, places, animals and objects and
they don’t need to have a capital letter e.g. man, town, dog, tree.
Proper nouns name particular people or places and they do need to have a capital
letter. e.g. Mrs Smith, Jack, London.

1) Tick to show whether the words in the table are common nouns or proper nouns.

Common nouns Proper nouns

apple

England

James

rabbit

glass

Africa

bricks

2) Sort the words from the word bank into the correct part of the table.

Common noun Proper noun

ball carrot Pizza Hut Tom

city Spain flower star

3) Write two common nouns. Write two proper nouns.

1) ____________________________ 1) ____________________________

2) ____________________________ 2) ____________________________

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