Nouns
and pronouns
Nouns –
person, place or thing
answers the questions “who” and
“what”
3 types of nouns
Common – ordinary
person, place, or thing
Example: teacher, bank, pen
Compound – two or more
nouns together
Example: brother-in-law, swimming pool, dog house
Proper – name of a
person, place, or thing; always capitalized
Example: Mrs. Martin, Africa,
Monday
Pronouns – words that take
the place of nouns
Antecedents are what we call the
nouns that are replaced by pronouns
Example: Michael said he lost his watch at the fair
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Personal Pronouns
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Singular
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Plural
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First
person
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I,
me
my,
mine
myself
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we,
us
our,
ours
ourselves
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Second
person
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you
your,
yours
yourself
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you
your,
yours
Yourself
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Third
person
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he,
him, his
she,
her, hers
it,
its
himself,
herself, itself
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they,
them
their,
theirs
themselves
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Demonstrative pronouns: this, that,
these, those
Example: This is the person that we want to hire.
Of all the
celebrations in the world, that is my
favorite.
Relative pronouns – connect 2
clauses
That, which, who, whom,
whose
Examples: Louisa is the player who pitched first.
We
visited Grandma, whose house is in New Orleans.
Indefinite pronouns:
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Singular
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Plural
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Singular or Plural
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another everyone nothing
anybody everything one
anyone little other
anything much somebody
each neither someone
either nobody something
everybody
no one
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both
few
many
others
several
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all
any
more
most
none
some
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