Noun Definitions
A person, place, thing or idea
What is a Noun?
What pronoun should be placed in the blank (Gerald goes by he/him pronouns)
Gerald ate all of ______ cookies yesterday.
his
What kind of Noun is the following:
Audience
Collective Noun
What are words that replace nouns or other pronouns
Personal Pronoun
What pronoun should fill the blank below:
Everyone ate ______ lunch
Their
What Type of Noun is the Following:
Polar Bear
Compound Noun
The word the pronoun replaces
Antecedent
Noun, pronoun, or group of words that tells who or what receives the action of a word
Direct Object
Word that names a group of people or things
Collective Noun
What pronoun is wrong in the sentence below: (Assume Chelsea and Veronica go by she/her pronouns. Chelsea's brother by he/him pronouns.)
When Chelsea's little brother ate Veronica's carrots, Chelsea told on his brother.
his should be her
James is the owner of the business.
Proper Noun
A type of pronoun that shows the antecedent possessing something.
Possessive Pronouns
Describing Word
Adjective
What is an Abstract Noun?
a noun that names an idea, a quality, a feeling, or a characteristic.
Where should the apostrophe go in "Stevens" in the following sentence.
Sara Keeny and Kayla Stevens had so much fun at the park. Afterwards, Sara went to the Stevens house for dinner.
Stevens'
What kind of Noun is paint in the following sentence:
The artists smoothed the paint onto the canvas.
Concrete Noun
Pronouns that are used to point out specific things or people
Demonstrative Pronoun
The following is a list of pronouns: Are they singular or plural?
I, you, he, she, it, me, you, him, her, it.
Singular
What is a Concrete Noun?
A noun that names a thing you can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch.
What pronoun should be placed in the blank. (Assume all students in the following sentence go by she/her pronouns and he/him pronouns).
Each student should take out ___________ textbook.
His or her
What kind of noun is the word fear in the following sentence.
Their fear disappeared when the fun began.
Abstract Noun
Pronouns that are used to express an unspecified person, thing, or amount
Demonstrative Pronoun
We, you, they
Plural Subject