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.