Nouns and Pronouns Flashcards
Common Noun
regular nouns
no capital letters
Proper Noun
nouns with capital letters
specific people places and things
concrete Noun
nouns that represent things you can see, hear, smell, taste and feel
can be common or proper
Abstract Noun
nouns that represent ideas or emotions, NO SENSES USED
collective nouns
represent a group of things/people without being plural
Antecendent
word pronoun is standing in for
June bought her books for school
june = antecendent
Personal Pronouns
I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours, you, your, yours, he, him, his, she, her hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs
Demonstrative Pronouns
point things out
This, that, these, those
Interrogative Pronouns
must ask a question
Who, whom, which, whose, what
Relative Pronouns
Begin adjective clauses
they don’t ask a question
don’t appear at the beginning of the sentence
which, that, who, whom, whose
Reflexive Pronouns
personal pronouns + self
myself, ourselves, yourself, himself, yourselves, itself, themselves
Indefinite Pronouns
do not refer to a specific noun
someone, anyone, something, everybody, anybody, nothing, none, few, many, several, all
