A noun is a word or word group that names a person, place, thing. Quality, idea or action.
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Transcript of A noun is a word or word group that names a person, place, thing. Quality, idea or action.
A noun is a word or word group that names a person, place, thing. Quality, idea or action.
Noun examples
Person- Mr. Merritt Place- Mona Shores Thing- Flower Quality-Wisdom Idea- Patriotism Action- Decision
Other types and examples
Proper nouns can be a particular person, place, thing, or idea and will always be capitalized
Mr. Merritt is a proper noun Muskegon is a proper noun Lake Michigan is a proper noun Valentines Day is a proper noun Languages, religions, organizations, titles of
people, poems and books, paintings, and other works of art are all proper nouns.
Common nouns
Names any member of a large class of persons, places, things, ideas
Collective nouns
Name people or things thought of as a single group like:
Audience, class, club, committee, couple, crowd, family, group, herd, mob, people, public, series, team, youth.
Compound Nouns
Are made up of two or more words. Some are written as one word, some are hyphenated, and some are written as two words.
Examples are sweatsuit, self-confidence, and finish line.
Plural nouns
Are formed either by adding s, es Possessive nouns have and apostrophe
plus s
Pronouns
Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that can replace an noun.
There are many forms: personal, possessive, interrogative, indefinite and demonstrative.
Examples of personal pronouns I, me, you, he, him, she, her, it, we, us,
you, they and them
Possessive pronouns
My, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, your, yours, their, theirs
Interrogative
Who, whom, which, what
Indefinite and demonstrative Another, each, everyone, nobody,
somebody, anyone, either, everything, no one, someone, anything, everybody, neither, nothing, something, both, few, many, several
This, that, these, those
Verbs
Verbs
An action verb names the subject’s action in a sentence.
A linking verb connects the subject of a sentence with another word in the sentence. It could be an adjective (predicate adjective) or a noun/pronoun (predicate nominative)
Examples of linking verbs
Be, am, is, was, are, were, being, seem, appear, become, grow, remain, stay, feel, taste, smell, sound, look.
A linking verb does not show action. Instead it connects, the subject of a sentence with a noun, pronoun, or adjective in the predicate.
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