BY: RENEE Haerle♥ and KATIE Proal♥

A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea

Persons Teacher, chef, Dr. Ling, Jesse Norman

Places Grand Canyon, city, Namibia, kitchen

Things lamp, Nobel Prize, granite, Golden Gate

Bridge

Ideas happiness, liberty, bravery

A common noun names any one of a group of

persons, places, things, or ideas and it is not

capitalized

A proper noun is a particular person, place,

thing, or idea and begins with a capital letter

Common Nouns Proper Nouns

girl

writer

county

monument

book

language

Renee Haerle

Harper Lee

San Diego

Eiffel Tower

To Kill a Mocking Bird

English

A concrete noun names a person, place, or

thing that can be perceived by one or more

of the senses(sight, hearing, taste, touch,

smell).

An abstract noun names an idea, a feeling, a

quality, or a characteristic.

Concrete

Nouns

photography, music, pears, filmmaker,

sandpaper, rose, Brooklyn Bridge

Abstract

Nouns

love, fun, freedom, self- esteem, beauty,

honor, wisdom, Buddhism

A compound noun is one noun made up of two or more words. It may be hyphenated.

Heartbeat, sister-in-law, or railroad

A collective noun is a singular noun that represents a group.

Ex. orchestra, herd, class, team, or flock

Collective – The band played my favorite song.

Band is collective because it is singular but

represents a group of people.

Not collective – The boys disliked the song.

Boys is not collective because it is plural.

A pronoun is a word that is used in place of

one or more nouns or pronouns.

Examples: Ask Katie if Katie has done Katie’s

homework.

Ask Katie if she has done her homework.

There are 6 types of pronouns

A personal pronoun refers to the one

speaking(first person), the one spoken to

(second person), or the one spoken about

(third person).

Personal

Pronouns

Personal

Pronouns

Personal

Pronouns

Singular plural

First Person I, me, my, mine we, us, our, ours

Second Person you, your, yours you, your, yours

Third Person he, him, his, she,

her, hers, it, its

they, them, their,

theirs

Reflexive pronouns refer to the subject and are necessary to the meaning of the sentence.

An intensive pronoun emphasizes a noun or another meaning of the sentence. It can be removed from a sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence.

Examples:

Reflexive Tara enjoyed herself at the party.

Intensive I myself cooked dinner.

Reflexive and Intensive

Pronouns

First person myself, ourselves

Second person yourself, yourselves

Third person himself, herself, itself,

themselves

A demonstrative pronoun points out a person, a place, a

thing, or an idea. The speaker would have to be

demonstrating what he/she is referring to.

Examples: This is the book I bought for Katie.

Those are very nice shoes.

Demonstrative Pronouns

this that these those

An interrogative pronoun introduces a

question.

Examples:

What is your favorite color?

Who is that girl?

Who wrote Barrio Boy?

Interrogative Pronouns

what which who whom whose

An indefinite pronoun refers to a person, a

place, a thing, or an idea that may or may not

be specifically named.

Examples:

Both of the girls left their homework at home.

I would like some of that chow mein.☻

Common Indefinite Pronoun

all each many nobody other

any either more none several

anyone everything most no one some

both few much one somebody

A relative pronoun introduces an adjective

clause; it relates back to a noun earlier in the

sentence.

Examples:

Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of

Independence, was our country’s third president.

Exercise is something that many people enjoy.

Common

Relative

Pronouns

That Which Who Whom whose

An adjective is a word that is used to modify

(describe) a noun or a pronoun.

An adjective modifies by telling What kind?

Which one? How much? How many?

Sometimes an adjective comes after the word it

modifies.

Examples: The box is empty.[ The predicate

adjective empty modifies box]

What Kind? Which Ones? How Much or

How Many?

Korean children

busy dentist

seventh grade

these countries

several Days

no marbles

The most commonly used adjectives are a, an,

and the. These adjective are called articles.

A and An are indefinite articles because they

refer to any member of a general group.

A frog croaked. This could be any frog.

The is called the definite article because it

refers to someone or something in particular.

Where is the orange? This refers to a specific orange.

This, that, these, and those can be used both as

adjectives and as pronouns. When they modify a

noun or pronoun, they are called demonstrative

adjectives. When they are used alone they are

called demonstrative pronouns.

Examples:

Demonstrative Adjectives:

This drawing is mine, and that drawing is his.

This and that describe which drawing

Demonstrative Pronoun:

This is mine and that is his.

This and that represent things and are therefore

pronouns

A proper adjective is formed from a proper

noun.

Notice that a proper adjective, like a proper

noun, is capitalized. Common adjectives are

generally not capitalized.

Proper Noun Proper Adjective

Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner

Catholicism Catholic priest

Middle East Middle Eastern country

Africa African elephant

Ask yourself if the word is a person, place, thing,

or idea. If yes, it is a noun or a pronoun

Ask yourself if the word answers the following

questions: What kind? Which one? How much?

How many? If yes, it is an adjective.

To determine if a demonstrative is an adjective

or pronoun, look to see what follows the word:

Is this pen yours?[ this describes which pen, therefore it

is an adjective]

This is your pen.[ if no noun follows the demonstrative,

it is a pronoun]

Memorize pronoun types ☻(good luck with that)