Noun and Pronoun quiz

Noun

A person, place, thing, or idea

pronoun

A word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns.

compound noun

Consists of two or more words used together as a single noun. The parts of a compound noun may be written as one word, as seperate words, or as a hyphenated word.

Interrogative Pronoun

Introduces a question ( Who, whom, whose, which, what)

Demonstrative pronoun

Is used to point out a specific person, place, thing, or idea ( This, that, these, those)

Proper noun

Names a particular person, place, thing, or idea and is capitalized

concrete noun

Names a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses ( Sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell)

abstract noun

Names an idea, feeling, quality or characteristic.

indefinite pronoun

Refers to one or more people, places, things, or ideas that may or may not be specifically named.

antecedent

The word that a pronoun stands for or refers to

intensive pronoun

emphasizes its antecedent and has no grammatical function

Relative pronoun

introduces a subordinate clause. (Who, whom, whose, which, that)

common noun

names any one of a group of people, places, things, or ideas and is generally not capitalized

personal pronoun

refers to the one speaking (first person), the one spoken to (second person), or the one spoken about (third person)

reflexive pronoun

refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or as an object of a preposition.