Nouns Flashcards
Noun
a person, place, thing, idea, or emotion.
Define the status of a noun
A,an,my and the before a noun
Common noun
regular nouns that do not start with capital letters
Proper noun
nouns that start with capital letters.
Concrete noun
nouns that represent things you can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
Abstract noun
nouns that represent ideas or emotions
Collective noun
nouns that represent a group of things or people without being plural
Pronoun
Take the place of a noun…are I, you, he, she, them, they,we, us, him, her, and it.
Antecedent
is the word the pronoun is standing in for…He showed the manager his report. (His and he are the same person.
1st person
I, me, my, mine (singular); we, us, our, ours (plural)
2nd person
you, your, yours (both singular and plural)
3rd person
he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its (singular); they, them, their, theirs (plural)
Types of pronouns
Personal, demonstrative,interrogative, reflexive & intensive, relative
Demonstrative pronoun
point things out. There are only four of them: this, that, these, and those…This is my new CD.
Interrogative pronoun
used to ask questions. There are five of them: which, who, whose, whom, and what.