Nouns/Pronouns

What is a noun?

• something that describes

• a word or phrase

• a person, place, thing, or idea

• replaces a pronoun in a sentence

What is a concrete noun?

• names something that can be recognized with the five senses (can be touched)

• names something that cannot be recognized with the senses (felt or thought)

• a group of people or things

• something that can be counted

What is an abstract noun?

• names something that can be recognized with the five senses (something you touch)

• names something that cannot be recognized with the senses (felt or thought)

• something that cannot be counted

• a person's or place's name

What is a collective noun?

• a capitalized noun

• a noun made up of two or more words

• an every day noun

• a group of people or things

What is a compound noun?

• a noun made by joining two or more words

• a noun that names a specific person or place

• a regular noun

• a noun that can be counted

What is a common noun?

• names any one of a class of people, place, things, or ideas (a regular noun)

• names a specific person, place, thing, or idea

• names a group of people or things

• names an idea or feeling

What is a proper noun?

• names any class of people, places, things, or ideas (regular noun)

• replaces a noun in a sentence

• the noun that comes before the pronoun in a sentence

• names a specific (special) person, place, thing, or idea

What is a pronoun?

• the noun being replaced in a sentence

• replaces a noun or a group of words acting as a noun in a sentence

• a special noun, which is capitalized

• a word that expresses a relation to another word in a sentence

What is an antecedent?

• a word that takes the place of a noun

• a word that describes a noun

• the noun (or group of words acting as a noun) a pronoun refers to or replaces

• a word that describes a verb

What is a personal pronoun?

• refers to a PERSON (place, thing, or idea) speaking, writing, listening, reading, or being discussed in a sentence

• directs the action of the verb toward the subject

• add emphasis to a noun or pronoun in the sentence

• any noun that is a person's name