Hesi Grammar: NOUNS

Question 1

Person, place, thing, or idea. Two types, common and proper.

Answer 1

Nouns

Question 2

What are two types of nouns?

Answer 2

Common and Proper

Question 3

The class or group of people, places and things. Not capitalized. Ex. people(boy, girl, worker, manager)

• Places: school, bank, library, home
• Things: dog,cat, truck,car

Answer 3

Common noun

Question 4

The names of specific person, place or thing. Capitalized.
Ex:
*People: Abraham Lincoln, people names
*Places: Los Angeles, California
*Things: Statue of Liberty, Earth, Lincoln memorial.

Answer 4

Proper Noun

Question 5

Names of conditions or ideas.
Ex. Condition: beauty, strength
Idea: Truth, peace

Answer 5

General nouns

Question 6

Name people, places and things that are understood by using your senses.
Ex.
People: baby, friend, father
Places: town, park, city hall
Things: rainbow, cough, apple, silk, gasoline

Answer 6

Specific nouns

Question 7

Name people, places and things that are understood by using your senses.
Ex.
People: baby, friend, father
Places: town, park, city hall
Things: rainbow, cough, apple, silk, gasoline

Answer 7

Specific nouns

Question 8

the names for a person, place, or thing that may act as a whole.
Ex. class, company, dozen, group, herd, team, and public

Answer 8

Collective noun

Question 9

Words that are used to stand in for a noun. May be classified as personal, instensive, relative, interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite, and reciprocal.

Answer 9

Prounouns

Question 10

The case for nouns and pronouns that are the subject of a sentence.

Answer 10

Nominative

Question 11

The case for nouns and pronouns that are an object in a sentence.

Answer 11

Objective

Question 12

The case for nouns and pronouns that show possesion or ownership.

Answer 12

Possessive

Question 13

which, who, whom, whose

Answer 13

Relative

Question 14

Emphasize the pronouns that immediately precede it.
*I myself, you yourself, he himself, she herself, the (thing) itself, we ourselves, you, yourselves, they themselves
Ex: She herself made sure to set the alarm.
(In this case, herself is meant to emphasize she, making herself the intensive pronoun.)

Answer 14

Intensive

Question 15

Represent a person or thing that we don’t have a specific number of:
One
Other
None
Some
Anybody
Everybody
No one
Nobody, all, any, each, everyone, either/neither, one, some, several

Ex: Anybody can learn another language.
(In this case, the indefinite pronoun is anybody because it refers to an immeasurable amount of people.)

Answer 15

Indefinite

Question 16

Used to ask a question.

What, Which, Whom, Who, Whose

Answer 16

Interrogative

Question 17

Are words that express an action is happening to two or more people or things at the same time. Each other, one another.
Ex: The students switched tests with one another.

Answer 17

Reciprocal

Question 18

Pronouns that point to specific things. Examples of are this, that, these, and those.

Answer 18

Demonstrative