NOUNS

DEFINITION

A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.

PROPER NOUN A proper noun, which names a

specific person, place, or thing is almost always capitalized. Examples: Ms. Bauer, Middle East,

God, Spanish, Buddhism, Chicago Cubs

COMMON NOUNS Common nouns name everything else, things that usually are not capitalized.Examples: cat, dog, house, wall, book, etc.

COMPOUND NOUNSTwo or more words that together name a person, place, thing, or ideaExamples: sidewalk, Empire State Building, daughter-in-law

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

Collective nouns: names a group

Examples: audience, batch, bouquet, jury, fleet, group, staff, pride, etc.

PRACTICE Find the nouns in the following

sentences:This weekend, I went to the beach.

Labor Day was a good day for a barbeque.

My brother-in-law took my sister camping.

MORE PRACTICE Identify whether the underlined noun

is a common, proper, collective, or compound nounI can’t wait for the World Series this

year.There is a fire on Michigan Avenue

today.The tablecloth she used was green. I can’t wait to make a jack-o’-latern.

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER? Identify the nouns in the following

sentences. Then determine if they are common, proper, collective, or compound.

1. The Chicago Bears had a rough game yesterday.

2. His influence for this song was Kanye West.

3. I forgot to watch the MTV Music Awards last night.

4. Did the audience like Chelsea’s jokes?

TIME FOR PRONOUNS! A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns.Six types of pronouns:

PersonalReflexive and IntensiveDemonstrative InterrogativeRelative * Indefinite *

1. PERSONAL PRONOUNS Refers to the one speaking, the

one spoken to, or the one spoken aboutExamples: I, me, my, mine, we, us,

our ours, you, your, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs

Try it: I hope that you can help me with my homework.

2. REFLEXIVE/INTENSIVE PRONOUNS Refers to the subject of the

sentence Examples myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves

Try it: Kimiko wrote a note to herself.

DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS Points out a specific person,

place, thing, or ideaExamples: this, that, these, those

Try it: This is our favorite song by Ella Fitzgerald.

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS Introduces a question

Examples: who, what, which, whom, whose

Try it: What is the answer to the last algebra problem?

LABEL THE PRONOUNS!

Whose is this? Kelly herself organized the school’s recycling program.

The apples I picked today taste better than these.

He said that they would meet us today.