Wonders Unit 2 Week 1 Grammar ~ Kinds of Nouns

teacher

schoolhouse

chalk

people's names (George Washington)

towns (Los Angeles)

states (Pennsylvania)

holidays (New Year's Day)

days (Saturday)

months (July)

streets (Constitution Boulevard)

special events (Olympics)

geographical names (Mt. Rushmore)

historical periods (the Middle Ages)

star

flower

music

sign

horn

wind

salt

peace

honor

courage

friendship

honesty

Proper nouns -- names, holidays, days of the week, brands, company names, product names, titles of books, historical periods, events, official titles of people, initials, geographic names, and places -- begin with capital letters.

Capitalize the IMPORTANT words in proper nouns. Short words, such as of and and, are usually not capitalized.

holidays (Independence Day)

titles of books (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

special events (Olympics)

geographic names (Pacific Ocean)

We went to the park on saturday.

Later we walked to oakville market.

The owner is mr. simpson.

the store only closes on new year's day.

What time does hill street library close?

the Firefighters showed a lot of courage

brian visited the american museum of natural history

ellen handed in her essay on thursday.

Pioneers left missouri and traveled west along the oregon trail.

(Now complete practice page 64.)