Reminders of some types of
NOUNS
A Quick Review
A concrete noun:
• Names a person, place, or thing that you can
perceive using one of your senses.
Concrete nouns:
Students
Desks
Wall
Restaurant
Abstract noun:
• Names an idea, feeling, a quality, or
characteristic.
• Abstract nouns:
Danger
Justice
Love
Collective noun
• Collective nouns name a group
A flock
Crew
A herd
A troop
Compound nouns
• Made up of two or more words.
Toothpaste
Bedroom
Blackboard
Moving on to pronouns:
• Types of pronouns
Personal Pronouns
Reflexive/Intensive pronouns
Demonstrative and Relative pronouns
Indefinite and Interrogative
Personal pronouns
• Personal Pronouns refer to certain specific
persons, places or things. They change their
form depending on person, number or
gender.
• Examples: I, he, they, them, you, it, ours,
their, yours.
Practice. Write the sentence. Circle
the personal pronoun.
1. Where did they come from?
2. It was a long time ago, in the nineteenth
century.
3. Mom told me that grandfather is from
Sweden.
4. He brought two cousins with him.
5. She didn’t want to come at first.
Practice. Write the sentence. Circle
the personal pronoun.
1. Where did they come from?
2. It was a long time ago, in the nineteenth
century.
3. Mom told me that grandfather is from
Sweden.
4. He brought two cousins with him.
5. She didn’t want to come at first.
Reflexive Pronouns
• End with –self or –selves. They refer back to a
noun or pronoun in a sentence.
Examples:
Myself
Himself
Itself
Ourselves
Jake imagined himself at the wheel of the car.
Intensive Pronoun
• Also end in –self or –selves but is used with a
noun or another pronoun to emphasize the
noun or pronoun.
• Example: Henry Ford himself once drove the
car.
Write the sentence. Underline the reflexive
or intensive pronoun. Label it “R” or “I”.
• I gave myself plenty of time to get to
work.
• You should let yourself into the
house.
• The actress herself wrote those lines.
• The cat itself caught the mouse.
Write the sentence. Underline the reflexive
or intensive pronoun. Label it “R” or “I”.
• I gave myself plenty of time to get to
work. R
• You should let yourself into the
house. R
• The actress herself wrote those lines.
I
• The cat itself caught the mouse. I
Demonstrative and Relative
• Demonstrative points out a person, place,
thing, or idea.
Ex: That was Thomas Edison.
Is This the very first light bulb?
Relative: Introduces a subordinate clause.
The car which I drove is old.
My brother, whose phone you heard, is a doctor.
Write the sentences. Underline the demonstrative or
relative pronoun. Label it “D” or “R”
• The chef who won the competition studied in
Paris.
• This tastes good.
• I can’t stand dogs that bark loudly.
• These shoes fit comfortably.
Write the sentences. Underline the demonstrative or
relative pronoun. Label it “D” or “R”
• The chef who won the competition studied in
Paris. R
• This tastes good. D
• I can’t stand dogs that bark loudly. R
• These shoes fit comfortably. D
Indefinite and Interrogative
• Interrogative introduces a question.
• Example: Who, What, Which
• Indefinite refers to a person, place, a thing, or
idea that is may or may not be named
specifically.
• Example: Anybody, both, few, neither,
nothing, no one, everyone, several.
Write the sentence. Underline the Indefinite or
interrogative pronoun. Label it “I” or “inter”
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1. Many rode bicycles for transportation.
2. Which is the most famous invention?
3. What was the name of the song?
4. Several rode to the event.
Write the sentence. Underline the Indefinite or
interrogative pronoun. Label it “I” or “inter”
• 1. Many rode bicycles for transportation. I
• 2. Which is the most famous inventions?
INTER
• 3. What was the name of the song? INTER
• 4. Several rode to the event. I
What is an antecedent?
• An antecedent is a noun to which the pronoun
refers. It usually goes before the pronoun
("ante" means before).
• Examples:
• Even though the party was fun, it was
crowded.
• People often like parties because they get to
see old friends.
Adjectives
• Describes a noun or pronoun. Articles are
considered adjectives. The articles are an, a,
the.
Examples:
1. The area, remote and primitive, is peaceful.
2. The small lions ate quickly.
Check your practice.
• The little town is in a quiet valley surrounded
by tall mountains.
• Some days the mountains look blue or purple.
• A lazy river flows through the western part of
town.
• The water, deep and serene, looks beautiful
with golden spots of sunlight on it.
Demonstrative Adjectives
They are used to describe a noun. This, that,
these and those.
(yes these are the same words you wrote for
demonstrative pronouns BUT now they describe
a noun).
Examples:
Demonstrative pronoun: This is the Australian
outback.
Demonstrative adjective: This land is the
Australian outback.
Check your practice.
• Directions: Underline the demonstrative
adjective (s) in each sentence.
• These international students at the table with us
put on the fair.
• It is held in that brick building.
• I bought this ring on my finger from a Greek
student.
• Those dolls in the next room are dressed in
national costumes.
• Karen made that African doll in the far corner.
Proper Adjectives
• When an adjective is formed from a proper
noun.
• Examples:
Proper Noun
Proper Adjective
America
an American city
Palm Beach
a Palm Beach vacation
New York
a New York newspaper
Check your answers
• This store is my favorite. ADJ
• Both have wooden buttons. PRONOUN
• These are the most popular albums. PRONOUN
• Which test was the hardest for you? ADJ
• This is a test for Ms. Alonso’s students. PRONOUN