Proper Nouns

One simple mistake that lots of students make is that of putting lower case letters at the beginning of proper nouns.

A noun is 'a person, place or thing'. For example, a rock, a street, a boy.

A proper noun is 'the NAME of a person, place or thing.' For example, Ayers Rock, Stuart Street, Timothy.

A proper noun is the title of something, for example, The Wave.

It's not too difficult to figure out when something should be given a capital letters. We all know that names and street names need capital letters. We all know some basic proper nouns.

What about the following - should they have capital letters or not?

1. Bible or bible

2. School or school

3. Soccer or soccer

4. Broncos or broncos

5. God or god


Have a go at seeing whether or not you can figure out if these are proper nouns or not.

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Mr Mansfield