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