What are the proper nouns for the following nouns?

Question

School

Teacher

Friend

Answer 1

Hi Jennifer,

In the cases of a teacher or friend, those proper nouns would take the form of proper names, since they are people and people's names always begin with capital letters. And a person's title (like a rank in the military, job title/position, or a member of a royal family for example) always begins with a capital letter, so that too would be considered a proper name.

Geographic world locations (cities, states, countries, islands, continents, bodies of water, mountains, etc.) are all proper nouns and therefore begin with capital letters. Government locations (names of schools, capitol buildings, office towers, law firms) would also be written as proper nouns.

Basically, a proper noun or proper name refers to a specific individual thing or person in a certain category like those listed above, as opposed to a general categorical term of sorts.

I hope this helps!

Answer 2

Hello Jennifer!

If I understand your question correctly, you are looking for examples of proper nouns that fall into each of those categories. Here are some examples:

School: Empresa Elementary School, Canyon High School

Teacher: Mrs. Jones, Mr. Montgomery

Friend: Sally, John

Essentially, any name of a specific school, teacher, or friend would be a proper noun. Does that answer your question?

-Sophia