Chapter 13: Nouns and Pronouns
What is the indefinite pronoun in the following sentence? Everyone wants to see the Harry Potter park.
"Everyone" is the indefinite pronoun.
What is the reflexive pronoun in this sentence? *Hint: A reflexive pronoun is essential to the meaning of a sentence. Sarah made herself a bowl of cereal.
"Herself" is the reflexive pronoun.
What is the intensive pronoun in this sentence? *Hint: An intensive pronoun is not essential to the meaning of the sentence. The musician himself attended the concert.
"Himself" is the intensive pronoun.
What is the personal pronoun in this sentence? I like the new computer.
"I" is a personal pronoun.
What is the demonstrative pronoun in this sentence? This is where I watch TV.
"This" is the demonstrative pronoun.
What is the demonstrative pronoun in this sentence? Those are my chocolates.
"Those" is the demonstrative pronoun.
What is the interrogative pronoun in the following sentence? (*Hint: Most interrogative pronouns do not have antecedents.) What did the teacher say?
"What" is the interrogative pronoun.
What is the relative pronoun in the following sentence? Is this the man whom you talked to earlier?
"Whom" is the relative pronoun.
What is the antecedent in this sentence: The police officer described how he arrested the criminal.
"he" is the pronoun; police officer is the antecedent
What is a collective noun?
A collective noun names a group of people or things
What is a collective noun?
A collective noun names a group of people or things.
What is a common noun?
A common noun is any one of a class of people, places, things, or ideas.
What is a compound noun?
A compound noun is made by joining one or more words together.
What is a concrete noun?
A concrete noun names something that can be recognized through any of the five senses.
What is a count noun?
A count noun names things that can be counted.
What is a demonstrative pronoun?
A demonstrative pronoun points to a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a non-count noun?
A non-count noun names things that cannot be counted.
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun takes the place of a noun or a group of words acting as a noun.
What is a proper noun?
A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a reflexive pronoun?
A reflexive pronoun directs the action of the verb toward its subject.
What is a relative pronoun?
A relative pronoun begins a subordinate clause (incomplete sentence) and connects it to another idea in the same sentence.
Is the noun "courage" concrete or abstract?
Abstract
Is the noun "fascination" concrete or abstract?
Abstract
What is an abstract noun?
An abstract noun names something that cannot be felt by the five senses.
What is an antecedent?
An antecedent is a noun to which a pronoun refers.
What is an indefinite pronoun?
An indefinite pronoun refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea that is not specifically named.
What is an intensive pronoun?
An intensive pronoun adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun in the same sentence.
What is an interrogative pronoun?
An interrogative pronoun is used to begin a question.
What are examples of collective nouns?
Club, herd, pack, mob, band, army, team, committee, and group are all examples of collective nouns.
Is the noun "cat" concrete or abstract?
Concrete
What are examples of compound nouns?
Crossbar, dinner jacket, pen pal, middle-distance, mother-in-law, and classroom are all examples of compound nouns.
What are examples of non-count nouns?
Thunder, rain, snow, equipment, and air are non-count nouns. We cannot count them.
What are examples of pronouns?
he, she, him, her, them, they, us, we, you, I, that, which, whom, those
What are examples of count nouns?
orange, street, apple, pen, and pencils are all examples of count nouns. They can be counted.
What are the five relative pronouns?
that, which, who, whom, whose
What are the five interrogative pronouns?
what, which, who, whom, whose