Nouns
These nouns describe things that are physically real. You can sense them.
What are concrete nouns?
This Holiday is the reason Mark Watney was able to plant his potatoes on mars
What is Thanksgiving
This person was the botanist for the Aires 3 Mars mission.
Who is Mark Watney
NASA
What is the acronym for National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Hers, their, our, yours
What are possessive pronouns?
A specific name for a person, place, or thing
What is a proper noun?
After putting it to a vote, why did Commander Lewis and the crew defy NASA's orders?
To turn around and go back to Mars to rescue Mark Watney
This is how many people were on the Ares 3 crew
What is 6
What is habitat
Who, what, which, whose
What are interrogative pronouns?
Represents a concept
Examples: kindness, height, idea
What is an abstract noun?
This is the reason Mark Watney was burning hydrogen in the hab
What is to produce Water
Melissa Lewis
Who is the commander of Ares 3
This is the name of the rover that Mark Watney used to communicate with NASA
What is Pathfinder?
This pronoun gives a sentence more meaning, but it can be taken out and the sentence still makes sense.
What is an intensive pronoun?
Give 3 examples of a non-count noun
Water, grass, sand...
This is how long NASA wanted the Ares 3 crew to stay on the Martian surface
What is 30 sols
Venkat (Vincent) Kapoor
Who is the director of Mars missions in charge of the rescue mission
This is the reason Watneys survival was not told to the Ares crew
What is morale?
Somebody, everyone, anything
What are indefinite pronouns?
Team, orchestra, pod, audience, pack
What is a collective noun?
This is the number of potatoes that were brought with the Ares 3 crew.
What is 12
This person discovered that Mark Watney was still alive.
Who is Mindy Park
MAV
What is Mars ascent vehicle?
These are the 8 kinds of pronouns we have learned so far
What are personal, possessive, demonstrative, indefinite, relative, reflexive, intensive, & interrogative pronouns?