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.