Nouns Flashcards

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Noun

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a person, place, thing, idea, or emotion.

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Define the status of a noun

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A,an,my and the before a noun

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Common noun

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regular nouns that do not start with capital letters

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Proper noun

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nouns that start with capital letters.

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Concrete noun

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nouns that represent things you can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.

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Abstract noun

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nouns that represent ideas or emotions

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Collective noun

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nouns that represent a group of things or people without being plural

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Pronoun

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Take the place of a noun…are I, you, he, she, them, they,we, us, him, her, and it.

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Antecedent

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is the word the pronoun is standing in for…He showed the manager his report. (His and he are the same person.

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1st person

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I, me, my, mine (singular); we, us, our, ours (plural)

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2nd person

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you, your, yours (both singular and plural)

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3rd person

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he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its (singular); they, them, their, theirs (plural)

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Types of pronouns

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Personal, demonstrative,interrogative, reflexive & intensive, relative

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Demonstrative pronoun

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point things out. There are only four of them: this, that, these, and those…This is my new CD.

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Interrogative pronoun

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used to ask questions. There are five of them: which, who, whose, whom, and what.

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Relative pronoun

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begin adjective clauses, There are five of them: which, whom, whose, who, and that…(You can borrow the book (that ) I just finished)

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Reflective/Intensive

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personal pronouns with -self at the end: myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, and themselves

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Indefinite pronoun

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do not refer to a specific noun. Here are some examples of indefinite pronouns:
someone, everyone, anyone, no one, somebody, anybody, everybody, everything, something, anything, nothing,none, few, many, several, all, and some

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Demonstrative pronouns

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this, that, these, and those