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.
Examples:
Common / Proper noun
- Apple / Mott's Apple Juice
- boy / "Blue Boy" by Thomas Gainsborough
- car / Jaguar XFR
- desert / Sahara
- egg / Egg Beaters
- fire / Fire Island, NY
- gardener / Earl Stanley Gardener, author
- house / The White House
- ice / "Ice Age: Continental Drift" 2012 animated movie
- justice / US Department of Justice
- king / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- lake / Lake Superior
- museum / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- nine / Nine West Shoes & Handbags
- onion / Onion Valley Road, Independence, CA
- power / Microsoft Power Point
- queen / Queen Elizabeth II
- rule / Ann Rule, author
- soup / Campbell's Soup
- tower / Eiffel Tower
- uncle / "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- valley / Valley Forge, PA
- walnut / Black Walnut Cafe, Houston, TX
- xenon / Xenon Corporation, Wilmington, MA
- yellow / Yellowstone National Park
- zero / Hershey's Zero candy bar
