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Chapter 2 :))
Parts of Speech
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Noun | used to name a person place or a thing |
| Compound Noun | two or more words used together as a single noun |
| Common Noun | names any one group of persons, places, things, or ideas |
| Proper Noun | names a particular person, place, things, or ideas |
| Concrete Nouns | words that can be perceived by one or more of the 5 senses ex: hummingbird, telephone, teacher, popcorn, ocean |
| Abstract Nouns | names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a chracteristic ex: knowledge, love, humor, beauty |
| Collective Nouns | a word that names a group ex: audience, herd, cluster |
| Pronoun | a word in a place of one or more nouns or pronouns |
| Personal Pronouns | refers to the one speaking |
| Personal Pronoun List | First Person: I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours Second Person: you, your, yours Third Person: he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs |
| Reflexsive Pronouns | refers to the subject as a complement |
| Reflexsive and Intensive Pronouns List | myself, oursleves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves |
| Intensive Pronouns | emphasizes a noun or pronoun |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | points out a person place or thing. this ; that ; these ; those |
| Interrogative Pronouns | introduces a question. what ; which ; who ; whom ; whose |
| Relative Pronouns | introduces a subordinate clause. that ; which ; who ; whom ; whose |
| Indefinite Pronouns | refers to a noun or pronoun that might not be specifically named. ex: all, both, each, few, many, neither, one, several |
| Adjective | word used to modify a noun or pronoun |
| Adjective tells what ?! | What kind? ex: stone, rushing, eager Which one? ex: another, next, those How much? ex: seven, more, many |
| Articles | adjectives which are most commonly used. a, an, and the. |
| Demonstrative Adjectives | This , that, these, those. Modifying a noun or pronoun |
| Proper Adjectives | formed by a proper noun, used to modify something ex: Canadian, American, Chinese |