Types of Nouns
This is the definition of a noun.
What is a PERSON, PLACE, THING, or IDEA?
Find the noun: Have you been to Ohio?
What is OHIO?
These three little words can signal a noun is nearby.
This is the job of a pronoun.
What is "TO TAKE THE PLACE OF A NOUN"?
Pronouns replace...
Nouns
This is a general noun, like "baseball" or "apple".
What is a COMMON NOUN?
Find the noun: We won the game!
What is "GAME"?
This type of word shows ownership and can act as a noun marker (example: “my,” “their”).
What are POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS?
"We", "You" and "Him" are examples of this type of pronoun.
What is a PERSONAL PRONOUN?
Chicago Cubs
Proper
This is a specific noun, like "Jarren Duran" or "Botswana"
What is a PROPER NOUN?
Words like “fifteen,” “many,” and “six” are this type of noun marker.
What are "QUANTITY WORDS?"
"Hers", "Your" and "My" are examples of this type of pronoun.
What is a POSSESSIVE PRONOUN?
Betsy likes to cook; she cooked spaghetti for dinner.
1) What is the pronoun?
2) What is the antecedent?
1) She
2) Betsy
This is a noun that is an idea or concept, like "curiosity".
What is an ABSTRACT NOUN?
Find the noun: Victory is mine!
What is VICTORY?
True or False: The noun comes directly after a noun marker.
What is FALSE?
"Everyone", "Somebody" and "Nobody" are examples of this type of pronoun.
What is an INDEFINITE PRONOUN?
The noun the pronoun refers to is called the...
Antecedent
The words "a, an, & the" are one type of noun marker, because they often introduce nouns. "A, an, & the" are also called THIS.
What is an ARTICLE?
Define common nouns:
Common nouns are people, places, things or ideas that are not capitalized.
These describing words modify nouns, so they act as one type of noun marker.
What are ADJECTIVES?
The word a pronoun refers to or replaces is called THIS>
What is an ANTECEDENT?
What is a concrete noun?
Something you can taste, see, smell, touch, or hear.