1. NOUNS What you need to know!
Kindly contributed to the Adult Basic Skills Resource Centre Gill Gallagher. August 2007.
Rs/E2.4 Use punctuation and capitalisation to aid understanding.
Ws/E2.4 Use a capital letter for proper nouns
(a) understand what is meant by a proper noun
(b) understand the purpose of marking proper nouns by an initial capital
Rs/E3.3 Use punctuation and capitalisation to aid understanding
Ws/E3.3 use punctuation correctly (e.g. capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks)

2. A NOUN IS A NAMING WORD
cat
car
house

3. plane
college
bed
ice-cream

4. People
doctor
pilot
vet
mum
teacher

5. Nouns can also be things that you can’t see – such as emotions.
jealousy
love
anger

6. These nouns are called ‘common nouns’
These nouns are called ‘common nouns’. They don’t have capital letters at the beginning.
But some other nouns are called ‘proper nouns’ and they do have capitals.

7. People’s names are proper nouns and always start with a capital letter.
London
Names of places are proper nouns - Barnsley, Leeds, New York, Rome.

8. Houses of Parliament Hampton Court Palace
Names of special buildings are ‘proper nouns’ and have capital letters.
Houses of Parliament
Hampton Court Palace

9. December Months of the year and days of the week
SPECIAL DAYS Christmas Day Mother’s Day
December
Months of the year and days of the week

10. A ‘collective noun’ is the name given to a group of people, objects or animals.
A pride of lions
A flock of sheep
Do you know any more?