English Grammar
Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives Nouns a word or word group that is used to name a person,
place, acompound thing,-single or noun an idea made up of more than one word
one word- hyphenated- two words- cupcake light-year jumping jack Nouns common-any proper- particular TIPP TIPP no capital letter - capital letter- book Morroco
mnemonic- pun-play on words study aid lawyer -Sue N. Court TIPP-thing, idea, person, place Nouns
concrete- names TIPP that can be perceived by one or abstract- names idea, a more of the senses feeling, quality, or (sight, hearing, taste, touch, characteristic- smell) freedom, joy, courage music Nouns
collective-word that names a group
batch, team, jury The Pronoun (word used in place of one or more nouns) antecedent- word a pronouns stands for Sometimes the Catherine told antecedent is not Catherine's father Catherine (ante) stated. Catherine would be told her (pn) example: late. father she(pn) would Who (pn) invented be late. the telephone? Personal Pronouns Reflexive and Intensive Reflexive- Intensive- emphasizes refers to the subject andPronouns functions a noun or another as a complement or an object of pronoun the preposition
The firemen did not consider I myself knew the themselves heroes. answer. First Person myself, ourselves Second Person yourself, yourselves Third Person himself, herself, itself, themselves Demonstrative Pronouns
points out a TIPP
this, that, these, those
DP DA Those are..... Those shoes are... Relative Pronouns introduces a subordinate clause (contains a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought)
that, which, who, whom, whose
Joe, who is new, ran for president. Interrogative Pronouns
introduce questions
what, which, Who wrote the who, whom, book? whose Indefinite Pronouns
refers to a TIPP that may or may not be specifically named
Some are... can also Some be used people as adj. are... The Adjective
an adjective is a word -What kind? used to modify a noun ex. stone house or a pronoun. -Which one? Modify-describe a word ex. first day -How much or how or make the meaning many? more definite ex. more money Writing You can make your writing more lively by VIVID using specific DULL The short slim vivid The small man man was adjectives. was accompanied accompanied by (avoid by two big dogs. two massive overused dogs. adjectives like good, nice, big) Articles A, an, the Indefinite-refer to any member of a general group (a, an) an is used a gerbil a uniform before a vowel sound an accident Definite- refers to the shuttle someone or something in particular (the) Demonstrative Adjectives
Adjective: this, that, these, those These flags are more when they modify a colorful than those noun- demonstrative banners are. adj. Pronoun: when they take the These are more place of a noun - colorful than those demonstrative pronoun are. Adjectives in a Sentence
We brought USED BOOKS to school. Adjectives can come before or after the The DRESS, once BRIGHT, looks words they modify. faded.
These coins are valuable. (LV-predicate adj.) Proper Adjectives
formed from a proper Islam- noun noun and begins with a capital letter Islamic law- Proper Adjective