English 4

What is a noun?

• It is a word for a person, place, thing, animal, and idea

• Its a word thaat describe an action

• It can be a concrete or abstract and a common and proper noun

True or false? A proper noun is the name given to something to make it more specific (e.g., Johnathan, Ollie, London, Monday). Proper nouns are written with capital letters regardless of where they appear in a sentence.

• True

• False

Which noun in the following sentence is a proper noun?

My neighbor is a student in a fifth grade class at Anderson.

1. neighbor

Identify the proper noun in the following sentence.

Jack is a lifeguard at the pool during the summer.

Identify the common noun in the following sentence.

I played tennis at Cross Gates on Saturday.

What are the common nouns in this sentence?

Students at Salina Central eat lunch in the cafeteria.

• students

• lunch

• eat

• cafeteria

Pronoun?

• is a word taht can replace a verb in a sentence

• is a word that can replace a noun in a sentence

Pronoun

The noun that is replaced by a pronoun is called an

• antecedent

• verb

• adjective

Pronoun that express possesion, ownership, origin, relationship, etc.

Ex: mine, yours, his, hers,ours, theirs

Pronouns that we use to refer to people and sometimes, animals.

Ex: I, you, she, he, it, we, they, me, us, them