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Nouns, Pronouns, & Verbs. We should already be familiar with this…. Nouns. Nouns. A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Persons doctor, aunt, Barack Obama Places Bainbridge Road, stadium Things table, bagel, e-mail, pillow Ideas pride, love, democracy, hope.
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Nouns, Pronouns, & Verbs We should already be familiar with this…
Nouns • A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. • Persons doctor, aunt, Barack Obama • Places Bainbridge Road, stadium • Things table, bagel, e-mail, pillow • Ideas pride, love, democracy, hope
Abstract & ConcreteNouns • All nouns are either abstract or concrete. • Abstract nouns name ideas and things that you cannot touch, such as grammar. • Concrete nouns name things you can touch, taste, see, hear, or smell.
Abstract & ConcreteNouns • Abstract • Ambition, greed, goal, thoughts • Concrete • Orange, backpack, rabbit, hammer, slogan
Proper & Common Nouns Proper nouns name particular persons, places, things, or ideas. Always capitalize proper nouns, which may contain more than one word. Common nouns are not capitalized, because they name people and things that are general, not particular.
Proper & Common Nouns • Proper • Michael Phelps, Jupiter, County General, August • Common • Athlete, planet, hospital, month
Collective Noun • Collective nounsname a group of people, animals, or things. Theyname the many groups intowhich people, animals, or thingsfall. • flock, team, herd, family, senate, audience
Compound Nouns • Compound nounsconsist of two or more words. Sometimes, the words in a compound nounruntogether as one word, or theymaybehyphenated. Sometimes, a compound nounistwoseparatewords. • Examples: • ninety-one, cookbook, sea-urchin, House of Representatives
Pronouns • Pronouns are wordsthattake the place of a noun or anotherpronoun. • Sometimesyouwillfindpronouns in the same sentence with the word or wordsthey replace. • This word or group of wordsthat the pronoun replaces is the pronoun’santecedent.
PronounExamples • Katie and Steveboth have dogs. Shewalksher dog every night, but hewalkshis dog in the morning. Theysometimeswalktheirdogstogether on the weekends. • All the pronouns in thisexample are personalpronouns (theyrefer to specific people or animals). Some of thesepersonalpronouns are shown in their possessive forms (his, her, their).
Verbs • Add a verb to a noun and youbring the noun to life. A verbmakes a noun move, stretch, sing, or breathe. • Verbs are wordsthat express an action or a state of being. Every sentence has at least one action verbor one linkingverb. • Some action verbs show actions youcansee, such as rise, run, erupt. Other action verbs show actions youcannotsee, such as hope, despise, imagine.
Verbs • Although Jen planned the dinner, Luke bought the ingredients and prepared each dish. The dinner guests enjoyed Luke’s cooking. • Verbs change form to indicate time. • The crew works. The crew worked. The crew was working. • Linking verbs join—or link—the subject of a sentence with a word or words that identify or describe it.
Verbs • Africais the second largest of the seven continents. • Suddenly, the room became quiet. His face turnedred. • Someverbscanbebothlinking and action verbs but not at the same time. If the word or wordsfollowing the verbidentify or describe the subject, the verbis a linkingverb.
Verbs • LINKING VERB • Ed feelssick. All foodtastesstrange to him. • ACTION VERB • Ed feels the top of the kiwi. He will taste the kiwi later. • A verb phrase contains a main verb plus one or more helping (or auxiliary) verbs. • The plumbershould have been here by now. • Hasn’tanyonecalledheryet? • Not (n’t in a contraction) isnever part of the verb phrase.
