WEEK 3 -- Nouns and Pronouns

Week 3 – Parts of Speech:  Noun

Nouns

A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, idea, or quality.

Categories for nouns:

 Common

Proper

Compound

Collective

As adverbs

Concrete

Abstract

Countable

Non-countable

Verbal nouns (gerunds)

Nouns fill the following places in sentences: 

Subject

Direct object

Indirect object

Object of a preposition

Predicate Noun

Pronouns

A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun.  An antecedent is a word or group of words to which a pronoun refers.  If the antecedent is singular, the pronoun must be singular.  If the antecedent is plural, then the pronoun must be plural.

           

Various types of pronouns

Personal

            Subjective case

            Objective case

            Possessive case

Reflexive or intensive

Demonstrative

Relative

Interrogative

Extended

Indefinite