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- names a person, place, thing, or idea.
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- In english most nouns fall into four main groups: people, places, things, ideas.
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- Nouns are naming words. Words such as friend, sky, dog, love, courage, and Seattle are bexamples of nouns. They help people name what they are thinking or talking about.
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- is a noun that names a group of people or things.
- A few nouns name groups of people or things. A pack, for example, is "a group of dogs that travel together." These nouns are called collective nouns.
- Collective Nouns
- Club, herd, army, troop, orchestra, commitee, class, team, group
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- is a noun made up of two or more words.
- sometimes two words are used together to form a new word with a different meaning. You know, for example, the two seperate words dog and house. When they are used together, however in a sentance "the puppy sleeps in a doghouse" the combined words mean "a house for a dog". together the words take on a special meaning. a noun such as doghouse is said to be a compound noun.
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- names any one of a class of people, places, or things.
- common nouns are not captalized unless they begin a sentance or a title.
- all nouns even if they are not collective or compound can be classified as either common noun or proper noun.
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- names a specific person, place, or thing.
- Proper nouns are always capitalized.
- All nouns even if they are collective or compound can be classified as either common nouns or proper nouns.
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- is a word that takes the place of a noun or a group of words acting as a noun.
- Pronouns are very useful part of language. They save us from having to say many things twice. Notice the following sentance for example: the doctor said that the doctor needed assistance during the surgery. By replacing the second " the doctor" with the word "he" the sentance becomes much clearer: the doctor said that he needed assistance during the surgery. In this section you will learn how to identify and use different types of pronouns.
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- is the noun ( or group of words acting as a noun) for which pronoun stands.
- The word or groups of words that a pronoun replaces is called an antecedant.
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- refer to the person speaking (first person), the person spoken to (second person), or the person, place, or thing spoken about (third person).
- Personal pronouns are either singular or plural. depending on whom or what they refer, they are called first person, second person, third person pronouns.
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- points out a specific person, place, or thing.
- A demonstrative pronoun generally appears at the beginning of a sentance with its antecedant appearing later in the same sentance. However sometimes the demonstrative pronoun will be placed after its antecedant.
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- is used to begin a question.
- Interrgative Pronouns
- what, whom, who m whose, which
- To interrgative means to " ask a question"
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- refers to a person, place, or thing that is not specifically named.
- An indefinite pronoun can fuction either as an adjective or as a subject that is not specifically named
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