BY: RENEE Haerle♥ and KATIE Proal♥
A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea
Persons Teacher, chef, Dr. Ling, Jesse Norman
Places Grand Canyon, city, Namibia, kitchen
Things lamp, Nobel Prize, granite, Golden Gate
Bridge
Ideas happiness, liberty, bravery
A common noun names any one of a group of
persons, places, things, or ideas and it is not
capitalized
A proper noun is a particular person, place,
thing, or idea and begins with a capital letter
Common Nouns Proper Nouns
girl
writer
county
monument
book
language
Renee Haerle
Harper Lee
San Diego
Eiffel Tower
To Kill a Mocking Bird
English
A concrete noun names a person, place, or
thing that can be perceived by one or more
of the senses(sight, hearing, taste, touch,
smell).
An abstract noun names an idea, a feeling, a
quality, or a characteristic.
Concrete
Nouns
photography, music, pears, filmmaker,
sandpaper, rose, Brooklyn Bridge
Abstract
Nouns
love, fun, freedom, self- esteem, beauty,
honor, wisdom, Buddhism
A compound noun is one noun made up of two or more words. It may be hyphenated.
Heartbeat, sister-in-law, or railroad
A collective noun is a singular noun that represents a group.
Ex. orchestra, herd, class, team, or flock
Collective – The band played my favorite song.
Band is collective because it is singular but
represents a group of people.
Not collective – The boys disliked the song.
Boys is not collective because it is plural.
A pronoun is a word that is used in place of
one or more nouns or pronouns.
Examples: Ask Katie if Katie has done Katie’s
homework.
Ask Katie if she has done her homework.
There are 6 types of pronouns
A personal pronoun refers to the one
speaking(first person), the one spoken to
(second person), or the one spoken about
(third person).
Personal
Pronouns
Personal
Pronouns
Personal
Pronouns
Singular plural
First Person I, me, my, mine we, us, our, ours
Second Person you, your, yours you, your, yours
Third Person he, him, his, she,
her, hers, it, its
they, them, their,
theirs
Reflexive pronouns refer to the subject and are necessary to the meaning of the sentence.
An intensive pronoun emphasizes a noun or another meaning of the sentence. It can be removed from a sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence.
Examples:
Reflexive Tara enjoyed herself at the party.
Intensive I myself cooked dinner.
Reflexive and Intensive
Pronouns
First person myself, ourselves
Second person yourself, yourselves
Third person himself, herself, itself,
themselves
A demonstrative pronoun points out a person, a place, a
thing, or an idea. The speaker would have to be
demonstrating what he/she is referring to.
Examples: This is the book I bought for Katie.
Those are very nice shoes.
Demonstrative Pronouns
this that these those
An interrogative pronoun introduces a
question.
Examples:
What is your favorite color?
Who is that girl?
Who wrote Barrio Boy?
Interrogative Pronouns
what which who whom whose
An indefinite pronoun refers to a person, a
place, a thing, or an idea that may or may not
be specifically named.
Examples:
Both of the girls left their homework at home.
I would like some of that chow mein.☻
Common Indefinite Pronoun
all each many nobody other
any either more none several
anyone everything most no one some
both few much one somebody
A relative pronoun introduces an adjective
clause; it relates back to a noun earlier in the
sentence.
Examples:
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of
Independence, was our country’s third president.
Exercise is something that many people enjoy.
Common
Relative
Pronouns
That Which Who Whom whose
An adjective is a word that is used to modify
(describe) a noun or a pronoun.
An adjective modifies by telling What kind?
Which one? How much? How many?
Sometimes an adjective comes after the word it
modifies.
Examples: The box is empty.[ The predicate
adjective empty modifies box]
What Kind? Which Ones? How Much or
How Many?
Korean children
busy dentist
seventh grade
these countries
several Days
no marbles
The most commonly used adjectives are a, an,
and the. These adjective are called articles.
A and An are indefinite articles because they
refer to any member of a general group.
A frog croaked. This could be any frog.
The is called the definite article because it
refers to someone or something in particular.
Where is the orange? This refers to a specific orange.
This, that, these, and those can be used both as
adjectives and as pronouns. When they modify a
noun or pronoun, they are called demonstrative
adjectives. When they are used alone they are
called demonstrative pronouns.
Examples:
Demonstrative Adjectives:
This drawing is mine, and that drawing is his.
This and that describe which drawing
Demonstrative Pronoun:
This is mine and that is his.
This and that represent things and are therefore
pronouns
A proper adjective is formed from a proper
noun.
Notice that a proper adjective, like a proper
noun, is capitalized. Common adjectives are
generally not capitalized.
Proper Noun Proper Adjective
Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner
Catholicism Catholic priest
Middle East Middle Eastern country
Africa African elephant
Ask yourself if the word is a person, place, thing,
or idea. If yes, it is a noun or a pronoun
Ask yourself if the word answers the following
questions: What kind? Which one? How much?
How many? If yes, it is an adjective.
To determine if a demonstrative is an adjective
or pronoun, look to see what follows the word:
Is this pen yours?[ this describes which pen, therefore it
is an adjective]
This is your pen.[ if no noun follows the demonstrative,
it is a pronoun]
Memorize pronoun types ☻(good luck with that)
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