Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives

Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives

NOUNS

Any person, place, thing, or idea

Kinds of nouns

• Concrete: any noun you can draw or photograph. People, places and things are concrete usually

• Abstract: Ideas and things that cannot be drawn, such as Love, Independence, Anger

• Collective: A noun that is the name of a group of people, animals, or things. An example is a pride of lions, or a class of students.

PRONOUNS

A word used in place of another noun.

Personal Pronouns

• I, me, you, y'all, she, her, he him, it, we, us, they , them.

Reflexive pronouns

• Always ends with "self" or "selves"

• Example: Myself, Yourself, Themselves.

• Please note that "Theirselves" is NOT a word!!!!!

Interrogative Pronouns

• Used in questions and stand for a noun

• WHO and WHAT and WHICH

• "Who is at the door?" It is Santa Claus at the door, so the pronoun "who" stands for Santa Claus

• "Which belongs to me?" Only the ham sandwich is mine, so the pronoun "which" stands for my ham sandwich

• "What are we doing?" Well, we are doing grammar, so the pronoun "what" stands for grammar.

Adjectives

These are words that modify nouns or pronouns, but really mostly nouns and I just have to add pronouns for the rare times that someone sticks and adjective by a pronoun. But they really go with nouns.

Adjectives answer one of three questions

• What kind?

• Which one?

• How many?

What kind?

• What kind of worm? A parasitic worm

• What sort of infection? A septic infection

• What kind of cure? A devastating, painful, lengthy, dreadful, horrible, terrifying, necessary cure.

Which one?

• Which peanut? Billy's peanut.

• Which cup of tea? The teacher's cup of tea.

• Which tea in the cup? Indian tea.

How many?

• How many dung beetles? Four

• How many piles of dung? One

• How much dung per dung beetle? Sixteen grams.

Some additional adjective notes

• Some adjectives can also be used as a certain kind of pronoun, such as "Few came to the concert," and "I own few anvils." 

• Articles are adjectives. "A," "An," and "The" are the articles. They do have the power to modify a noun. For example, Tai Lung says, "You're just a big fat panda!" and Po replies, "No, I'm THE big fat panda."

Even more additional adjective notes

• Adjectives, like nouns can be proper, such as French drain or Italian, dressing, or Abrahamic text.

• Actual plain old nouns can be used AS adjectives. For example, " a snow day..." Which kind of day? Snow. The ice cream truck. Which truck? Ice Cream.

• Words such as "hers, his, my, theirs, your, ours" are often called possessive pronouns, but they are really ADJECTIVES! They describe what kind of which one.

Multiple Choice

Which word below is an ABSTRACT noun?

• Sorrow

• Pigeon

• Texas

• Brother

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a CONCRETE noun?

• Justice

• Stupidity

• Knight

• Chivalry

Multiple Choice

"I saw a herd of cows on my street today." In this sentence, "herd" is

• A verb having to do with hearing

• A collective noun indicating many cows

• An abstract noun about the idea of being a cow

• An adjective meaning not soft

Multiple Choice

Billy ate a peanut off the floor.

• The sentence above contains two nouns

• The sentence above contains three nouns

• The sentence above contains both nouns and pronouns

• "off" is an adjective in the sentence above

Multiple Select

Check all the pronouns below

• Forest

• Him

• Theirselves

• What

Multiple Choice

Which word below is an adjective that answers the questions "Which one?"

• Several

• Zero

• Mine

• Anger

Multiple Choice

My beautiful palace contains twenty dogs and three cats.

• This sentence contains four adjectives

• This sentence contains two adjectives

• This sentence contains three adjectives

• This sentence contains no adjectives

Multiple Choice

The Spanish ambassador ate a circus peanut and laughed at the funny clowns.

• There are 2 adjectives above

• There are 3 adjectives above

• There are 4 adjectives above

• There are no adjectives above