Monday, February 8, 2010

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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Don't forget to spell correctly!

Mr Mansfield
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2010 at 9:46 PM

    Hi Mr Mansfield,

    Am I supposed to answer your question thing?

    What do we bring to WALRUS?

    From Hannah

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2010 at 11:13 PM

    I think 1,4 and 5 should have capital letters!!!
    :)

    From Ashley Covele

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2010 at 12:28 AM

    I think that Bible, Broncos, and God should all have capital letters. By the way in paragraph 5 it says "capital letters" when it should just be "capital letter".

    From lachlan Blencowe

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2010 at 12:30 AM

    Are we allowed to vote more than once on which word should be added to the dictionary?

    Lachlan Blencowe

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2010 at 2:24 AM

    I think that 1,4 and 5 should have capital letters.

    From Hannah :p

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2010 at 5:04 PM

    1 should be a in higher case,
    4 also in higher case and 5 should be in higher case if talking about our God a pacific God, where in other context such as : They do not believe there is s god. It should not have a capital letter. If that makes any sense to you Mr Mansfield.

    From Meg

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2010 at 10:13 PM

    I think that 1,4 and 5 has to have capitals.

    Kaylin Fetaui(Fa-tau-ie)

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  8. Mr MansfieldFebruary 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM

    Hi everyone

    So far so good! 1, 4 and 5 need capital letters. Thanks for picking up my error Lachlan. I'll have to proofread my work carefully.

    I've added a new comic. Check it out - it's pretty funny.

    Mr Mansfield

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  9. AnonymousMarch 31, 2010 at 12:15 AM

    It is a bit funny :o
    LOL


    :)

    -ASH-

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  10. Nathan RoserApril 19, 2010 at 2:21 AM

    Hi guys,

    Have fun with the exams? It is a shame I missed them (lol)

    cya!

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  11. Nathan RoserApril 19, 2010 at 2:33 AM

    Don't ask how i got my name up there and..

    I think that 1,4 and 5 should have capital letters..

    Thanks...

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  12. Nathan RoserApril 19, 2010 at 11:57 PM

    Nice comic lol

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