Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Two, Lesson Three: Proper Nouns


  1. please
  2. place
  3. pleasant
  4. plural
  5. purple
  6. ripple
  7. evaporate
  8. steam
  9. ocean
  10. stream
  1. sea
  2. lake
  3. river
  4. freeze
  5. north
  6. south
  7. east
  8. west
  9. central
  10. region
Proper Nouns

Proper nouns can also be names of companies and brands. For instance, there are companies (Ford, Toyota, Jeep, etc.), food companies (Pilsbury, Folger's, Nabisco, etc.), shoe companies (Nike, Adidas, New Balance, etc.), and computer companies (Compaq, Apple, Dellt, etc.). Names of restaurants are also proper nouns as are names of stores, parks, schools, etc. Here are some more sentences containing proper nouns.

                                                                                
  She took the kids to eat at El Grande Burger Shop.
                                                                                
  They stopped at Rupert's Market for supplies.
                                                                                
  We stayed the night at the Sleep A Night Motel.
                                                                                
As you can tell, there are lots of possible proper nouns. Here are a few more examples:
                                                                                
  She attends the Green Valley Bible Church.
                                                                                
  He plans to attend Green Valley Community College next year.
                                                                                
  They ate their lunch at the Green Valley Community Park.
                                                                                

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