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A noun is a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.Person: man, Barack Obama, SupermanPlace: city, state, Alabama, ChildersburgThing: dog, car, Monte Carlo Idea: peace, love, humility, happiness
The man went down to his car to get his wallet.
I understand all of the material for the test.
The dog eats his food every single day.
Singular nouns name one person, one place, one thing, or one idea.The car runs well.
Plural nouns name more than one person, place, thing, or idea.The cars run well.
Possessive nouns show ownership.The baby’s bottleThe babies’ bottle
A concrete noun names an object that occupies space or that can be recognized by the five senses.Rock, air, book, electricity
An abstract noun names an idea, a quality, or a characteristic.Peace, love, wisdom, bravery, happiness
A proper noun names a particular person, place, thing, or idea.
A common noun names a general person, place, thing, or idea.
Common Proper
Person actor Mel Gibson
Place city Childersburg
Thing dog Champ
Idea religion Christianity
A collective noun names a group.FamilyTeamPressPopulationBoardFlockHerd
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun, a group of words acting as a noun, or another pronoun.
Singular Plural
1st Person I, me We, us
2nd Person You You
3rd Person He, him, she, her, it
They, them
A possessive pronoun takes the place of a possessive form of a noun.
Singular Plural
1st Person My, mine Our, ours
2nd Person Your, yours Your, yours
3rd Person His, her, hers, its
Their, theirs
A reflexive pronoun refers, or reflects back, to a noun or pronoun earlier in the sentence.
An intensive pronoun adds emphasis to another noun or pronoun in the same sentence.
Singular Plural
1st Person Myself Ourselves
2nd Person Yourself Yourselves
3rd Person Himself, herself,
itself
Themselves
A demonstrative pronoun points out specific persons, places, things, or ideas.
Singular This That
Plural These those
An interrogative pronoun is used to form questions. Who? What? Whose? Which? Whom?
A relative pronoun is used to begin a subordinate clause.
Who Whoever Which That
Whom Whomever Whichever What
Whose Whosoever Whatever
An indefinite pronoun refers to persons, places, or things in a more general way than a noun does.See chart on page 451 for a list of these
pronouns.
A verb is a word that expresses action or a state of being and is necessary to make a statement.
An action verb tells what someone or something does.
A linking verb links, or joins, the subject of a sentence with a word or expression that identifies or describes the subject.
A verb phrase consists of a main verb and all its auxiliary, or helping, verbs.
An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun by limiting its meaning.An adjective answers the following
questions: What kind? (round table) Which one? (these books) How many? (twelve disciples) How much? (many ideas)
Adjectives have three degrees of comparison:Positive: one thing
The lamp is bright.Comparative: comparing two things
This lamp is brighter than that lamp.Superlative: comparing three or more
things This lamp is the brightest of all.
Articles are the adjectives a, an, and the.A and an are indefinite articles.The is a definite article.
Proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns.English, Alabamian, Japanese, American
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb by making its meaning more specific.Adverbs answer the following questions:
When? I will call tomorrow.
Where?The speaker will stand here.
How?Kim carefully polished the car.
To what extent?We were truly sorry.
A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence.Prepositions begin phrases that end with a
noun or pronoun that is called the object of a preposition.
See page 473 for a list of prepositions.
A conjunction is a word that joins single words or groups of words.
A coordinating conjunction joins words or groups of words that have equal grammatical weight in a sentence:And, but, or, so, nor, yet
Correlative conjunctions work in pairs to join words and groups of words of equal weight in a sentence.Both…and Just as…soEither…orNeither…norNot only…butWhether…or
A subordinating conjunction joins two clauses, or ideas, in such a way as to make one grammatically dependent on the other.These conjunctions join a dependent
(subordinate) clause to an independent clause.
Look on page 477 for some examples A conjunctive adverb is used to
clarify the relationship between clauses of equal weight in a sentence.
An interjection is a word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation.Ouch! That hurts!Wow! That is amazing!
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