Midterm Grammar Flashcards
Proper noun
Names a particular person, place, thing, or idea and begins with a Capitol letter. Examples- Kay O’neill, Octavio Paz, Morocco, Eiffel Tower, Buddhism, Arabic, Ottawa.
Common noun
Names any one of a group of persons, places, things, or ideas and is generally not capitalized. Examples- girl, writer, country, monument, compact disk, book, religion, language, city.
Collective noun
A word that names a group. Examples- audience, batch, class, crew, committee, family, herd, jury, litter, quartet, swarm, team.
Pronoun
A word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns. Examples- Ask Dan if Dan is done with Dan’s homework. Ask Dan if HE has done HIS homework.
Personal pronouns
Refers to the one speaking.
First person- I, me, mine, my, we, us, our, ours
Second person- you, your, yours,
Third person- he, him, his, she, her, it, its, they, them, their, theirs.
Reflexive and intensive pronouns
First person- myself, ourselves
Second person- yourself, yourselves
Third person- himself, herself, itself, themselves.
Demonstrative pronouns
Points out a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
Examples- these, that, this, those.
Interrogative pronouns
Introduces a question. Examples- what, which, who, whom, whose.
Indefinite pronouns
Refers to a person, a place, a thing, or an idea that May or may not be specifically named. Examples- all, any, anyone, both, each, either, everything, few, many, more, most, much, nobody, none, no one, one, other, several, some, somebody.
Relative pronoun
Introduces a subordinate clause. Examples- that, which, who, whom, whose.
Articles
Example- a, an, the
Proper adjective
Formed from a proper noun. Examples- THANKSGIVING dinner, CATHOLIC priest, MIDDLE EASTERN country, AFRICAN continent.
