English Grammar: Nouns and Pronouns

Names a particular person, place, thing, or idea (capitalized)

A noun that can be perceived by one or more of the senses

<p>Names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Names a group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Consists of two or more words that together name a person, place, thing, or idea</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The word or word group that a pronoun stands for</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to the one speaking, the one spoken to, or the one spoken about</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to the subject of a verb and functions as a complement or as the object of a preposition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emphasizes its antecedent—a noun or another pronoun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Points out a noun or another pronoun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Introduces an adjective clause</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to a person, place, thing, or idea that may or may not be specifically named</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Modifies a noun or pronoun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The most frequently used adjectives are a, an, and the</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any member of a general group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'The' because it refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'This, that, these, and those' when they take the place of nouns or other pronouns</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When they modify nouns or pronouns</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An adjective that is formed from a proper noun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A helping verb that is joined with a main verb to express an attitude such as necessity or possibility</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A word or word group that is described by the linking verb</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Has an object</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No object</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A noun, pronoun, or a word group that functions as a noun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>About, down, during, since, within</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As of, along with, in place of</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Joins words or word groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Joins words or word groups that are used in the same way</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>And, or, nor, for, but, so, yet</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both..and, either..or, not only..but also</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>After, if, since, until, where</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pairs of conjunctions that join words or word groups that are used in the same way</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Begins a subordinate clause and connects it to an independent clause</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ah, whoa, hey, ouch, oops</p> Signup and view all the answers