Nouns

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Nouns Pronouns
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Nouns

• Person
• Place
• Thing
• Idea

Person Oprah or woman
Thing puppy
Idea sadness
Place Paris
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Nouns

• Common
• Any person, place, thing, idea
• Proper
• Particular person, place, thing
• Begins with capital letter

The couple just got married!
Mary and John just got married!
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Nouns

• Example
• A man in Scotland once walked 1,000 miles in
  1,000 hours.
• Name the nouns.

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Nouns

• Example
• A man in Scotland once walked 1,000 miles in
  1,000 hours.

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Nouns

• Example
• If Larry and Peter dont get their reports in
  on Friday, they have only themselves to blame.
• Name the nouns.

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Nouns

• Example
• If Larry and Peter dont get their reports in
  on Friday, they have only themselves to blame.

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Nouns

• Compound
• One word, 2 words, hyphenated word
• Examples
• Basketball, newspaper
• Civil rights, Drama Club
• Mother-in-law, no-hitter

My mother-in-law still irons my husbands clothes.
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Nouns

• Concrete names an object which can be perceived
  by the senses

• Examples
• Hat
• Phone
• Computer
• Bread
• Car

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Nouns

• Abstract names a quality, characteristic, or an
  idea

• Examples
• Sadness
• Prejudice
• Dictatorship
• Decade
• Strength

We felt the turkeys anxiety.
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Nouns

• Collective Noun names a group
• Uses a singular verb when the group is referred
  to as a unit
• Uses a plural verb when the individuals in the
  group are regarded separately
• Ex audience, jury, flock, orchestra, staff, swarm

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Pronouns

• Takes place of one or more nouns
• Personal pronouns
• Indefinite pronouns
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Reflexive
• Reciprocal
• Nouns that pronoun replaces are antecedents
  Ex. The man drove his bus.

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Personal Pronouns

• 1st person (person speaking)
• I, my, mine, me
• we, us
• our, ours
• Ex We celebrated St.
• Valentines Day with a kiss.

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Personal Pronouns

• 2nd person (person spoken to)
• You
• Your, yours
• Your guardian angel
• always watches over
• you.

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Personal Pronouns

• 3rd person
• (person or thing spoken about)
• He, him, his
• she, her, hers
• it, its
• they, them
• their, theirs
• Ex His family dances often.

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Reflexive Pronouns

• Think MIRROR
• Himself
• Herself
• Themselves
• Ourselves
• Yourself
• Example I saw myself in the mirror, and I didnt
  like what I saw.

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Demonstrative Pronouns

• Point out specific people, places, or things
• This
• That
• These
• Those
• Example This is a rabbit who looks forward to
• Easter.

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Relative Pronouns

• Introduces adjective clause
• that, which, who, whom, whose
• The dog that you trained is well-behaved.

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Interrogative Pronouns

• Ask questions
• The astronaut whom you saw was Alex.
• Which of the astronauts walked on the moon?
• Who is the best astronaut?
• What did the astronaut see?
• Whose are those boots?

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Indefinite Pronouns

• Refer to persons or things generally
• Everyone, anybody, few, most, no one, each,
  several, neither, nothing
• Example Several of the Mario Brothers play the
  keyboard.

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• Page 9-10, Exercise 3, 1-10