Exercise — Select the correct classification of the highlighted noun
Instructions: For each sentence below, select whether the highlighted noun is common or proper.
1. The Bermudas are a cluster of small [islands], lying as far south as Charleston, as far east as Nova Scotia.
2. [Hotel Hamilton] is a large, commodious building with many pillars and broad verandas.
3. The [Tenedos] is lying off Grassy Bay, making herself fine to receive the Princess Louise, and her jolly tars are in high spirits.
4. On the [Sunday] of the christening, Mrs. Howe and her children watched the merrymaking in Poverty Lane from a second story window.
5. Where was Prospero's [cell]? Where slept the fair Miranda? Upon what bank sat Ferdinand when Ariel sang?
6. The [Duluth High School] is a fine structure built of red sandstone.
7. The [Deliverance] was a ship of eighty tons.
8. Old [Lobo], or the King, as the Mexicans called him, was the gigantic leader of a remarkable pack of gray wolves, that had ravaged the Currumpaw Valley for a number of years.
9. About this time I met with an odd volume of the [Spectator].
10. [Wynken], Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe.
11. Let us all go to the [station] Monday to meet Uncle.
12. The cows were coming one by one; [Brindle], Ebony, Speckle, and Bess, Shaking their horns in the evening wind.
13. [Gunpowder] had been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider.
14. Upstream, at the bend of the sluggish pool round the [Peace Rock], stood Hathi, the wild elephant, with his sons, gaunt and gray in the moonlight.
15. In his eighth year Charles Lamb entered [Christ's Hospital], a famous school in London.
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