Nothing but Nouns

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Nothing but Nouns

• Nouns name people, places, things, or ideas.

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In your writing, they are

• Subjects- The paper is due next Monday.
• Predicate Nominative- My mom is a teacher.
• Direct Objects- Mary gave Joel ice cream.
• Indirect Objects- Mary gave Joel ice cream.

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They come in different forms

• Concrete/ Abstract- desk/ love
• Possessive- teachers/ teachers
• Singular/ Plural- student/ students
• Collective- school of fish, crew of sailors
• Common/ Proper- school/ Stewarts Creek Middle
  School

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They are often found with

• Verbs
• Adjectives

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Pronouns

• They take the place of nouns.
• See what I did there? They takes place of the
  noun pronoun.

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In your writing, they are

• Subjects- It is due next Monday.
• Predicate Nominative- This is she.
• Direct Objects- Mary gave her it.
• Indirect Objects- Mary gave her it.

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They come in different forms

• Personal (I, you, he, she, it)Reflexive/Intensive
  (they end in -self)Demonstrative (this, that,
  these, those)Interrogative? (which, who, whom,
  whose)
• Relative (that, which, who, whose, whom)
  Indefinite (anyone, most, anybody)

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They are often found with

• Verbs
• Adjectives

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Vivid Verbs

• They show action or a state of being (linking).

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In your writing they are used to

• Add action to your sentences.
• Help the reader envision what is happening.

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They come in different forms

• Action verbs- show action
• Andy hobbled down the stairs. (intransitive- no
  direct object)
• Andy threw the ball. (transitive- has a direct
  object)
• Linking verbs- link the subject to other words in
  the sentence.
• Steven is nice and charming.
• The pizza tastes delicious.
• Helping verbs- help the verb by aiding in its
  tense changes Not is not a verb!
• The movie will start in an hour.
• We have not been watching the new show.

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They are often found with

• Nouns
• Adverbs
• Pronouns