Pronouns and Proper Nouns

Which is a proper noun?

• Big Uncle

• my

• wives

• brother

Which pronoun is a possessive pronoun?

• Our

• I

• he

• them

Our family, the Taos, lived in a compound with more than fifty rooms, all surrounded by a wall. Which word in the sentence is a proper noun?

• family

• Taos

• Our

• by

What part of speech is the antecedent?

• noun

• verb

• pronoun

• preposition

Grandfather was head of the family, and he had two sons, Big Uncle and my father.  Both of them lived there with their wives and children and their own servants. The pronoun "their" replaces who? (Whose wives?)

• Grandfather

• my father

• Big Uncle and my father

• The Taos family

Which word is a noun?

• compound

• sisters

• time

• wall

• All of the above are nouns

What pronoun is always captialized

• possessive

• my

• i

• you

Why is Big Uncle capitalized but not my father?

• Big Uncle comes after a comma.

• The author's father is not important

• Big Uncle is used as a specific name.

• Father is not a noun.

Which is one of the 8 parts of speech?

• proper

• possessive

• pronoun

• compound

Grandfather was head of the family, and he had two sons, Big Uncle and my father. Which word is the antecedent for 'he'?

• sons

• Big Uncle

• Grandfather

• the narrator