Common Noun & Proper Noun Anchor Chart

 

Noun in English grammar is very important point in the parts of speech.

We already know, what is a noun?

Noun is a name of person, animal, thing or place.

But these nouns can be classified on the basis of various things.

Today we will see the one of the types of noun that is common noun and proper noun.

Let’s have a look on

What is a common noun with the example ?

 

Common noun:  Common noun refers to the name of person, animal, thing or any place that are generic. Means the name used generally. Common nouns are used commonly. They don't belong to any one particular person, animal, thing or place. They are common to different categories.  They are not capitalized unless they come to the starting of the sentence.

For example: 👇

Man, woman, boy, girl, town, day, month.

Common noun can be concrete noun, abstract noun, or collective noun.

All nouns can be classified as either common noun or proper noun. All nouns name something but Proper noun name particularly.  And common noun is not like that.

Common nouns are all over the place, which you can observe around you. You use them all the time but you are unconscious about it. You can find it wherever you go.

For example,

 If you are in the classroom, you can find the nouns like duster, table, chalk, eraser, teacher, fan, blackboard etc.

What is a proper noun?

🙋‍♀️Proper noun: Proper noun refers to the name of particular person, animal, place or thing. We can identify them easily as they always starts with capital letter.

Very easy to say your name is proper noun. A proper noun is a special word that we use for particular person, particular animal, particular place, or particular thing.

Common noun Vs Proper Noun

A noun is a phrase assigned to a person, place, or thing. They may be the difficulty of a sentence and are defined or changed via way of means of verbs, adjectives, and different figures of speech. Writers can also additionally be aware that a few nouns are written absolutely within side the lower-case, whilst others start with an upper-case letter. Why is that this so? There is a wonderfully precise purpose for this layout of writing, that being using not common noun and proper nouns. This lesson will describe the distinction among not common and proper nouns, the connection they percentage in writing, and examples of every.

Difference between common noun and proper noun?

Let’s see the difference between ‘common noun and proper noun’

The distinction among common and proper nouns is pretty easy from a writing perspective. A right noun will continually have a capital letter on the beginning, whilst a not common noun will continually be completely lower-case except it begins off evolved a sentence. Regardless of in which a right noun is placed, it'll continually start with a capital letter. There are precise motives for the class of every of those styles of nouns, which the subsequent sections will detail

Common noun and proper noun are the two main types of noun. We can differentiate them by saying that a common noun is a general way of classifying something. And a proper noun is a specific way of classifying something.

 

1. The biggest difference between the common noun and proper noun is capitalization. Proper nouns are always capitalized no matter where they come in the sentence.

 Only exceptional cases like some brand names written in stylistic way.

For example; the word ipad

2. On the other hand common noun is not capitalized. Only if the common noun is at the beginning of the sentences it should be in capital. But this is confusing for the learner.

When the common noun is the first word of the sentence then the first letter will be capital. In such case it is a little bit difficult to decide whether it is a common noun or proper noun. At that time the reader has to ask the question that whether the noun is referred for the particular person or not.

For example;

1Arnav went to school.

2. He is my friend Arnav.

In the sentence 1 Arnav is a proper noun and school is a common noun.

And in sentence 2 also Arnav is a proper noun so its first letter is capital.

3. Birds fly in the sky.

In the sentence 3 the word ‘birds’ is a common noun but as it is a first word of sentence the its capitalized..

 Common Noun and Proper Noun Worksheet with Answers

A good rule of thumb is that all names and titles are proper nouns and always be capitalized.

 

Now study and compare the following table to get more clear idea about common noun and proper noun with following Anchor Chart👇

Anchor Chart 

        

Common noun	Proper noun
Boy	Sam
Girl	Jane
City	Mumbai
Man	Mr. Patel
Country	India
River	Narmada
Day	Monday
Month	January
Dog	Browny
King	Ashoka

 

Hope you have gotten more idea about common noun and proper noun. Do more practice and go easily with common and proper nouns.

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