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A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
Persons: teacher, Beyonce, chef, Dr. Ling
Places: Grand Canyon, city, kitchen, school
Things: lamp, granite, Nobel Prize, Golden Gate Bridge
Ideas: happiness, self-control, liberty, bravery
Proper Nouns name a particular person, place, thing, or idea and begins
with a capital letter.
Common Nouns name any one of a group of persons, places, things, or
ideas and is not capitalized
Common
Proper
girl
Kay O’Neil
country
Argentina
religion
Jewish
city
New Orleans
monument
Eiffel Tower
Concrete Nouns name a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by
one or more of the senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell).
Abstract Nouns name an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic.
Concrete Nouns
Abstract Nouns
Photograph, music, pears, filmmaker,
sandpaper, rose, Brooklyn Bridge
Love, fun, freedom, self-esteem, beauty,
honor, wisdom, Buddhism
A Collective Noun is a word that names a group.
Examples: audience, committee, herd, quartet, batch, crew, jury,
swarm, class, family, team
A Pronoun is a word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns.
A personal pronoun refers to the one speaking (first person), the one spoken
to (second person), or the one spoken about (third person).
Personal Pronouns
Singular
Plural
First Person
I, me, my, mine
We, us, our, ours
Second Person You, your, yours
You, your, yours
Third Person
He, him, his, she,
They, them, their,
her, hers, It, its
theirs
A reflexive pronoun refers to the subject and is necessary to the meaning of
the sentence. An intensive pronoun emphasizes a noun or another pronoun and is
unnecessary to the meaning of the sentence.
Reflexive and intensive Pronouns
First Person
Myself, ourselves
Second Person
Yourself, yourselves
Third Person
Himself, herself, itself, themselves
A demonstrative pronoun points out a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
Demonstrative Pronouns
This
that
these
those
An interrogative pronoun introduces a question.
Interrogative Pronouns
What
Which
Who
Whom
Whose
An indefinite pronoun refers to a person, a place, a thing, or an idea that may
or may not be specifically named.
All
Any
Anyone
Both
Common Indefinite Pronouns
Each
Many
Nobody
Either
More
None
Everything Most
No one
Few
Much
One
Other
Several
Some
somebody
A relative pronoun introduces a subordinate clause.
That
Common Relative Pronouns
which
who
whom
whose
Adjective is a word that is used to modify a noun or a pronoun.
To modify a word means to describe the word or to make its meaning more
definite. It tells what kind, which one, how much, or how many.
What kind?
Which one or ones? How much or how
many?
Korean children seventh grade
several days
busy dentist
these countries
five dollars
braided hair
any book
no marbles
Articles: the most common adjectives are a, an, and the.
Demonstrative adjectives This, that, these, and those can be used both as
adjectives and as pronouns. When they modify a noun or pronoun, they are called
demonstrative adjectives. When they are used alone, they are called
demonstrative pronouns.
Demonstrative Adjectives: This drawing is mine, and that drawing is his.
Demonstrative Pronouns: These are much more expensive than those are.
A proper adjective is formed from a proper noun.
Proper Nouns
Proper Adjectives
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving dinner
Catholicism
Catholic priest
Middle East
Middle Eastern countries
Africa
African continent
A Verb is a word that expresses action or a state of being.
Examples: hooted & plays (are both physical actions), thought &
believe (are both mental actions)
A Linking Verb is a verb that expresses a state of being. It connects, or
links, the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the
subject.
Forms of the verb be
am
were
will be
can be
is
has been
shall be
should be
are
have been
may be
would have
was
had been
might be
been
appear
become
feel
Other linking verbs
grow
seem
look
smell
remain
sound
stay
taste
turn
A Helping Verb helps the main verb express action or state of being
Examples: can speak
has been named were sent
should have been caught
Commonly used helping verbs
Forms of be:
Am
Been
Are
Being
Be
is
Forms of do:
Do
Does
Forms of have: Have
Has
Other helping Can
Might
Verbs
Could
Must
May
Will
was
Were
did
had
Would
Shall
should
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Just as an adjective makes the meaning of a noun or pronoun more definite,
an adverb makes the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb more
definite. Adverbs answer the following questions:
Where?
How often? or How long?
When?
To what extent?
How?
or How much?
Words Often Used as Adverbs
Where?
away, here, inside, there, up
When?
later, now, soon, then, tomorrow
How?
clearly, easily, quietly, slowly
How often? Or How long?
always, usually, continuously,
never, forever, briefly
To what extent? Or How
almost, so, too, more, least,
much?
extremely, quite, very, not
Special Note: Many adverbs end in –ly. They are generally formed by adding –ly to
adjectives.
Adjective
Adverb
clear
clearly
quiet
quietly
convincing
convincingly
However, some words ending in –ly are used as adjectives.
Adjectives ending in -ly
daily
friendly
lonely
early
kindly
timely
A Conjunction is a word that joins words or word groups
A coordinating conjunction joins words or word groups that are used in the
same way.
Coordinating Conjunctions
and
but
for
nor
or
so
yet
Ex.
Jill or Anna (OR joins two nouns)
strict but fair (BUT joins two adjectives
Alice Walker wrote the book, yet she did not write the movie script.
(YET joins two independent clauses.)
Correlative conjunctions are pairs of conjunctions that join words or word
groups that are used in the same way, points out a person, a place, a thing, or an
idea.
Correlative Conjunctions
both……….and
not only……….but also
either………or
whether……….or
neither……….nor
Ex. Both Bill Russell and Larry Bird played for the team. (The pair of
conjunctions joins two nouns.)
She looked neither to the left nor to the right. (The pair of conjunctions
joins two independent clauses.)
An Interjection is a word that expresses emotion.
Commonly Used Interjections
my
ouch
oh
rats
oops
well
Ex.
aha
hey
hurray
Ouch! That hurts!
Aha! I caught you!
Well, what have you been doing?
wow
yikes
yippee