Proper nouns and common nouns
PROPER NOUNS
COMMON NOUNS
God (used as a name)
a god
Book of Common Prayer
a book
Uncle Pedro
my uncle
Father (used as a name)
my father
Lake Superior
a picturesque lake
the Capital Center studies
a center for advanced
the South
a southern state
Wrigley Field
a baseball stadium
University of Wisconsin
a good university
Geology 101
geology
Environmental Protection Agency
a federal agency
Phi Kappa Psi
a fraternity
a Democrat
an independent
the Enlightenment
the eighteenth century
the Declaration of Independence
a treaty
the World Wide Web,
a home page
the Web, the Internet, the Net network
a computer
Advil
a painkiller