Exam Review 1.5: Word Classifications and Possessive Nouns

Question 1

What is a common noun?

Answer 1

Names any singular noun (person, place, object, idea (desk, table, chair))

Question 2

What is a proper noun?

Answer 2

Names a particular person, place, object or idea (Russia, Jacey Mitchell, Marxism)

Question 3

What is a collective noun?

Answer 3

Names a whole class or group of objects (family, flock, multitude)

Question 4

What is a concrete noun?

Answer 4

Names something that can be perceived with at least one of the five senses (apple, smoke, sour, screech)

Question 5

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 5

Names and idea or quality that cannot be perceived by the senses (freedom, courage, anger, honesty)

Question 6

Singular possessive examples

Answer 6

The dog’s
The car’s
The sister’s
The baby’s

Question 7

Singular possessive ending in s examples

Answer 7

Charles’s
bus’s
boss’s
cactus’s

Question 8

Plural possessive examples

Answer 8

dogs’
cars’
sisters’
friends’

Question 9

Plural possessive not ending in s examples

Answer 9

children’s
sheep’s

Question 10

Two people owning something together example

Answer 10

Joe and Mary’s car
Laurie and Megan’s dog

Question 11

Two people owning separate things example

Answer 11

Meg’s and Jo’s books
Bilbo’s and Laurie’s student cards

Question 12

What is the plural of roof

Answer 12

roofs

Question 13

What is a pronoun

Answer 13

A word that replaces a noun

Question 14

What is an antecedant

Answer 14

The noun that the pronoun replaces

Question 15

What is a subjective pronoun?

Answer 15

Performs the action of the sentence