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How do you give a common noun a proper noun?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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A common noun is a word for any person, place, or thing.

A proper noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or a title.

common noun -> proper noun

actor -> Dustin Hoffman

boy -> Tom Sawyer

country -> Italy

doughnut -> Dunkin' Donuts

education -> Wake County (NC) Board of Education

flower -> Flower Street, Glendale, CA

girl -> Hannah Montana

house -> Ten Downing Street, home of Britain's Prime Minister

ice -> Jimmie's Ice House, Houston, TX

jacket -> Red Jacket Trail, Mankato, MN

knee -> 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee' 2007 HBO

letter -> 'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

month -> June

nickel -> Thrifty Nickel Want Ad (newspaper), Lubbock, TX

ocean -> Pacific Ocean

person -> Nelson Mandela

queen -> 'The African Queen' (1951), Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn

root beer -> Hire's Root Beer

spam -> Spam, registered trademark of Hormel Foods

truth -> Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women's rights advocate

uncle -> 'Uncle Buck' (1989), John Candy

vault -> International Wine Vault, Allston, MA

wall -> The Great Wall of China

yellow -> Yellowstone National Park

zebra -> Mountain Zebra National Park, South Africa

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