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Year 5 Proper and Common Nouns Worksheet — Level 3 — Practice Set 3 — Answers

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Year 5 Proper and Common Nouns Worksheet — Level 3 — Practice Set 3 — Answers

Proper nouns name a particular person, day or month and start with a capital letter. Common nouns name any person, place or thing.

1.Which word is the proper noun? The dog chased the ball to Omar.
  1. Adog
  2. Bball
  3. COmar

Answer: Omar

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

2.Which word is the proper noun? My sister got a new bike in April.
  1. Abike
  2. BApril
  3. Csister

Answer: April

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

3.Which word is the proper noun? Last week, Zoe left her hat on the bus.
  1. Ahat
  2. BZoe
  3. Cbus

Answer: Zoe

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

4.Which word is the proper noun? A bird landed on the fence near Kai.
  1. Afence
  2. Bbird
  3. CKai

Answer: Kai

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

5.Which word is the proper noun? The children made a cake for Theo.
  1. Acake
  2. Bchildren
  3. CTheo

Answer: Theo

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

6.Which word is the proper noun? The rain fell all day on Thursday.
  1. Aday
  2. Brain
  3. CThursday

Answer: Thursday

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

7.Which word is the proper noun? The library gets new books in January.
  1. Alibrary
  2. BJanuary
  3. Cbooks

Answer: January

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

8.Which word is the proper noun? The puppy chewed a shoe on Wednesday.
  1. Apuppy
  2. BWednesday
  3. Cshoe

Answer: Wednesday

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

9.Which word is the proper noun? Every day, Nina puts the flowers in a vase.
  1. Avase
  2. BNina
  3. Cflowers

Answer: Nina

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

10.Which word is the proper noun? The farmer planted a tree in October.
  1. Afarmer
  2. BOctober
  3. Ctree

Answer: October

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

11.Which word is the proper noun? On Sunday the baker sold all his bread.
  1. Abread
  2. BSunday
  3. Cbaker

Answer: Sunday

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

12.Which word is the proper noun? We take our towels to the pool every Tuesday.
  1. Apool
  2. Btowels
  3. CTuesday

Answer: Tuesday

A proper noun names a particular person, day or month and starts with a capital letter. A common noun names any person, place or thing.

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