Review for Test on Nouns and Pronouns

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Review for Test on Nouns and Pronouns
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Noun

• A noun is the name of a person, place or thing.
• It can be explained by stating what it is, a
  person, place or thing.
• For Example Radios, books, and telephones are
  media used by almost everyone.
• Name the nouns within the example sentence and
  explain why each word identifies as a noun.
• Radios, books, telephones, and media.

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Types of Nouns

• Collective Nouns
• Compound Nouns
• Common Nouns
• Proper Nouns

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Collective Nouns

• A collective noun is a noun that names a group of
  individual people or things.
• For examples team, class, committee, crowd,
  group, audience.

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Compound Nouns

• A compound noun is a noun made up of two or more
  words.
• They can be separate words, hyphenated words, or
  combined words.

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Types of Compound Nouns
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Common Nouns and Proper Nouns

• Common Nouns name any one of a class of people,
  places, or things.
• Examples
• inventor
• village
• story

• Proper Nouns name a specific person, place, or
  thing.
• Examples
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Tarry town
• Rikki-tikki-tavi

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HINT

• Common Nouns are not capitalized. Proper Nouns
  are always capitalized.

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Pronoun

• A pronouns is a word that takes the place of a
  noun or of a group of words acting as a noun.
• Example My father opened his files first. He
  couldnt wait any longer.
• What is the pronoun?
• He.

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Antecedents

• The noun for which the pronoun replaces.
• For Example When Mellisa wants to use the
  restroom, she asks for a pass.
• What is the antecedent? (What replaces the
  pronoun, she?
• Mellisa.

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Personal Pronouns

• Personal Pronouns refer to (1) the person
  speaking, (2) the person spoken to, or (3) the
  person, place, or thing spoken about.
• For Example I waited for my class to line up.
• There are two personal pronouns in example
  sentence. What are they?

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Demonstrative Pronoun

• The Pointers point out a specific person,
  place, or thing.
• This, that, these, those.
• For Example This is your review for your quiz.
• What is the demonstrative pronoun?
• This.

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Relative Pronoun

• Relative pronouns begin subordinate clauses and
  connects it to another part of the sentence
  called the independent clause.
• That, which, who, whom, whose
• For Example Here is the website which needs to
  be blocked.

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Interrogative Pronoun

• Interrogative Pronouns are used to begin a
  question.
• What, which, who, whom, whose.
• Who is going to make an A on their quiz today?
• What is the interrogative pronoun?
• Who.

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Indefinite Pronouns

• Indefinite pronouns refer to people, places, or
  things, often without specifying which ones.
• For Example I bet that there are only a few
  students who studied for todays quiz.
• What is the Indefinite Pronoun?

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Lets put it all together now!

• What is the difference between Common and Proper
  Nouns?
• What is the difference between collective and
  compound nouns?
• What is the difference between demonstrative and
  relative pronouns?

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GOOD LUCK!