Nouns And Pronouns Flashcards

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What are Concrete Nouns?

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Tangible (can physically touch) objects

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What are Abstract Nouns?

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Feelings, ideas, and intangible objects

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What are the six categories of Pronouns?

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  • Relative
  • Interrogative
  • Demonstrative
  • Indefinite
  • Personal
  • Reflexive
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What are Relative Pronouns?

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Introduces a dependent clause

-who, whom, whose, which, that

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What are Interrogative Pronouns?

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Questions

-who? whom? whose? which? what?

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What are Reflexive pronouns?

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Reflects or intensifies

-myself, itself, herself …

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What are Indefinite Pronouns?

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For an unnamed antecedent

- someone, anyone, everybody…

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What are Demonstrative Pronouns?

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Points out

-this, that, those

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What are Personal Pronouns?

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Takes the place of nouns naming things or people

- Nominative, Objective, Possessive Case

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What is the Nominative Case used for?

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subjects and subject complements (predicate nouns)

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What is the Objective Case used for?

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direct, indirect, and object of preposition

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What are the two types of Possessive Cases?

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Pronominal Adjectives: takes place of possessive nouns (my, her, his…)
Independent Possessive: replaces whole possessive noun phrase (Those keys are my keys > Those keys are mine)

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