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NOUNS, PRONOUNS, VERBS
REVIEW
NOUN = PERSON, PLACE, THING, IDEA
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Person: Stephanie, Dr. Edelstein, teacher
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Place: Chicago, island, Italy, college
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Thing: novel, surfboard, bicycle, horse
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Idea (feelings, concepts, measurements,
activities): happiness, knowledge, dancing, inch
TYPES OF NOUNS – COMMON + PROPER
What do these nouns have in common?
book
teacher
president
store
car
boat
island
COMMON NOUNS
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What do these nouns have in common?
The Outsiders
Ms. Pankey
Barack Obama
Books-a-Million
S.S. Minnow
Hawaii
PROPER NOUNS
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TYPES OF NOUNS – COMMON +
PROPER
COMMON NOUNS
Names a person, place, thing, or idea, but it is not
specific to a CERTAIN ONE.
PROPER NOUNS
Names a particular/specific person, place, thing, or
idea.
Almost always capitalized.
Can a noun be both common and proper? No.
TYPES OF NOUNS – CONCRETE + ABSTRACT
What do these nouns have in common?
hummingbird
telephone
teacher
popcorn
ocean
cat
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CONCRETE NOUNS
What do these nouns have in common?
knowledge patriotism love humor
beauty
Christianity
Buddhism
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ABSTRACT NOUNS
TYPES OF NOUNS – CONCRETE + ABSTRACT
CONCRETE NOUNS
Name a person, place, or thing that can be
perceived by one or more of the senses.
ABSTRACT NOUNS
Names an idea, feeling, quality, or characteristic.
Can a noun be both concrete and abstract? NO
EXERCISE ON PAGE 76 (LANGUAGE BOOK)
Review A
 Number your paper 1-5. SKIP LINES
 Read sentences 1-5. Write down EVERY noun in
each sentence. Only put one noun on each line.
 Look at each noun. Beside it, write whether it is
COMMON or PROPER and whether it is
CONCRETE or ABSTRACT.
 You should have 3 words written on each line:
The noun, common/proper, concrete/abstract.
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PRONOUN
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A word used in the place of a noun.
When Kelly saw the signal, Kelly pointed the
signal out to Enrique.
 When Kelly saw the signal, she pointed it out to
Enrique.
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The word that the pronoun is taking the place of is
called the antecedent.
EXERCISE ON PAGE 78
On the same sheet of notebook paper, number 610.
 Look at sentences 6-10. Write down all the
pronouns in each sentence.
 Remember that pronouns can be:
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Personal (I, me, we, she, he)
Reflexive/Intensive (myself, himself, ourselves)
Demonstrative (that, these, those)
Relative(that, which, whom, whose)
Interrogative (which, what, who, whom)
VERBS
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Verbs express an action, an occurrence, or a state
of being.
VERB TYPES
What do these verbs have in common?
built
run
baked
swimming
chop
fight
dance
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ACTION VERBS
What do these verbs have in common?
am
is
were
be
being
appears
tastes
seems
LINKING VERBS
feels
looks
VERB TYPES
ACTION VERBS
Verbs that express either a physical or mental
activity.
LINKING VERBS
Verbs that connect the subject to a word or word
group that identifies or describes the subject.
Sometimes, you need a linking verb + another main
verb to create a verb phrase that expresses what
the subject does.
EXERCISE ON PG. 103
Number your paper 1-10.
 Identify and write down the verbs or verb
phrases used in each sentence.
 Remember these can be action, linking, or verb
phrases.
 Whatever the subject is DOING!
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