Unit 3

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Proper Nouns

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A proper noun is the name that has been given to a person, a group of people, a place, or a thing. The names of religions and of languages are proper nouns. A proper noun is written with a capital letter at the beginning of each word. Here are some examples of proper nouns:

Betty	Garden Club
John Clark	Planning Committee
Capitol Hill	February
Oak Street	French
Monday	Ireland
The Daily Mirror

Longer names and titles of books often have prepositions and articles, which are not written with capital letters, except when those words appear at the beginning:

The University of the East   A Boy’s Life in the Country

exercise 3-1

Change lowercase letters to capital letters where necessary.

1.   She’s reading a book called a guide to good manners.

2.   We have to go to the springfield library on monday.

3.   They are from italy, and they don’t speak spanish.

4.   david is going to go to wilson academy for boys in september.

exercise 3-2

Write the proper names of people, places, or things you know.