Download Nothing but Nouns

Nothing but Nouns
Nouns name people, places, things, or ideas.
In your writing, they are…
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Subjects- The paper is due next Monday.
Predicate Nominative- My mom is a teacher.
Direct Objects- Mary gave Joel ice cream.
Indirect Objects- Mary gave Joel ice cream.
They come in different forms…
Concrete/ Abstract- desk/ love
Possessive- teacher’s/ teachers’
Singular/ Plural- student/ students
Collective- school of fish, crew of sailors
Common/ Proper- school/ Stewarts Creek Middle
School
They are often found with…
• Verbs
• Adjectives
Pronouns
They take the place of nouns.
*See what I did there? They takes place of the
noun pronoun.
In your writing, they are…
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Subjects- It is due next Monday.
Predicate Nominative- This is she.
Direct Objects- Mary gave her it.
Indirect Objects- Mary gave her it.
They come in different forms…
Personal (I, you, he, she, it)
Reflexive/Intensive (they end in -self)
Demonstrative (this, that, these, those)
Interrogative? (which, who, whom, whose)
Relative (that, which, who, whose, whom)
Indefinite (anyone, most, anybody…)
They are often found with…
• Verbs
• Adjectives
Vivid Verbs
They show action or a state of being (linking).
In your writing they are used to…
• Add action to your sentences.
• Help the reader envision what is happening.
They come in different forms…
• Action verbs- show action
– Andy hobbled down the stairs. (intransitive- no direct
object)
– Andy threw the ball. (transitive- has a direct object)
• Linking verbs- link the subject to other words in
the sentence.
– Steven is nice and charming.
– The pizza tastes delicious.
• Helping verbs- help the verb by aiding in its tense
changes *Not is not a verb!
– The movie will start in an hour.
– We have not been watching the new show.
They are often found with…
• Nouns
• Adverbs
• Pronouns