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nouns are anything that can be classified as

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name, place, thing.

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common nouns - five types

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singular or plural, abstract or concrete nouns, collective nouns.

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concrete nouns

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able to identify by one of five senses

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collective nouns vs common nouns

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collective nouns showing group of things, people same nouns - police, committee, team

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proper nouns one subgroup

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compound nouns New York, proper specific name, place, capitalization

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role of nouns in a sentence

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subject or object

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object noun

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the object is receiving an action

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The chair was moved

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object chair

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Jack asked Karen

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object Karen

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pleural nouns

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add s, add es

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pleural using add es

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foxes, brushes, churches – all ending sh, zz ,

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pleural using add i / Latin origin /

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octopus, fungus, alumnus

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nouns ending by s / z add s EXCEPT

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quiz - quizzes, gas-gasses, fez-fezzes

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nouns ending fe, f

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knife - knives, wolf -wolves, thief- thieves

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noun end on/um pleural will be / lat /

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medium-media, criterium-criteria

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mosquito pleural

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mosquitoes

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kangaroo pl

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kangaroos

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studio

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studios

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video

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videos

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noun ending y pleural

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ies

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baby pleural

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babies

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sky pleural

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skies

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key pleural

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keys

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boy pleural

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boys

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monkey pleural

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monkeys

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26
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irregular plural nouns

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see list

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deer pleural

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deer

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moose plural

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moose

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fish plural

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fish

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shrimp plural

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shrimp

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aircraft plural

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aircraft

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series plural

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series

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goose

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geese

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mouse

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mice

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ox

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oxen, castrated bulls

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possessive nouns dog plural, singular

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dog’s leash dogs’ leash

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deer possessive pleural

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deer’s

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mouse

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mice’s

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medium

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media’s

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office lobby possessive

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office lobby

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garage door possessive

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garage door

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countable nouns using

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a, an

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collective nouns ? a ,an or the

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the sugar

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collective uncountable only the

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sugar, milk, money, music, sand, news

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plural possessive noun

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children’s, wife’s, men’s

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single possessive noun

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Velasquez’s

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possessive noun endings s

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girls’, dress’

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possessive proper endings s noun

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Chris’s

49
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a possessive nouns time expression

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four days’ trip, three years’ experience, one month’s salary

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collective nouns are

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nouns referring to a group of things, people, animals

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collective nouns are treated as

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singular nouns

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collective nouns example

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a band, a crowd, a government, a class, a team, a jury, a family

53
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8 types of pronounce PRRDIII

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personal, relative, reflexive, demonstrative, interpersonal, interrogative, intensive, indefinite

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a pronoun can be used as

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subject or object

55
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personal pronouns

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singular and plural

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the reflexive pronoun refers to

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the previous noun in a sentence

57
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I helped — reflexive pronoun

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myself

58
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relative pronoun WWWW

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who, whom, which, what, that

59
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The doctor, —relative pronoun–I visited last year

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whom

60
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relative pronoun belongs interrogative pronouns

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who, which, what

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impersonal pronoun

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formal writing, one, it

62
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an indefinite pronoun is referred as

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adjective pronoun

63
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an indefinite or adjective pronoun more specific

AAAA-BEF-MMNSS

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all, any, another, anybody–both, everything, few,

MOST, MORE, NEITHER, SOMEONE, SOMETHING

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demonstrative pronouns

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there, those, these, there

65
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She was mean to —

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me / objective pronoun, pronoun being acted on

66
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which verses that

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which not critical part of sentence, that essential part of sentence, which thing, animal vs that thing, animal, person

67
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I / Me

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object/ subjective

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types of subject nouns are

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simple, complex, compound

69
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the noun in a sentence can have two roles

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subject or object

70
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possessive nouns do not need

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apostrophe your, her,

71
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contraction pronouns should not be used

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in work or academic writing

72
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antecedents

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are pronouns referring to previous noun / or directly used if reader known their meaning/

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antecedent-pronoun agreement

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same number

74
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vague antecedent

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do not use, without a previous noun. They cleaned the store. who are they?

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indefinite pronouns

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the amount can not be count, anybody, something, someone, some

76
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implied antecedent

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expected to understand even if not using nouns before

77
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the antecedent is the word

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is the NOUN that pronoun takes place or refers to.

78
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compound antecedent with one in the plural and one in the singular form
I hope that my sister or her friends will bring—–car

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their cars, rule use number based on closest antecedent noun

79
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the compound antecedent is made up of two words connected with either and or or

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IF AND PRONOUN WILL BE PLURAL

IF OR WILL BE SING OR PLU

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