Grammer Jammer August 19th-23.docx

Grammer Jammer 1. A noun is the part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea. 2. A concrete noun names something you can see, touch, taste, hear, or smell. 3. An abstract noun names something you cannot perceive through any of your five senses. 4. A collective noun n...

Grammer Jammer 1. A noun is the part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea. 2. A concrete noun names something you can see, touch, taste, hear, or smell. 3. An abstract noun names something you cannot perceive through any of your five senses. 4. A collective noun names a group of people or things. 5. A compound noun is a noun made up of two or more words acing as a single unit. 6. A common noun names anyone of a class of people, places, or things. 7. A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing. 8. Pronouns are words that stand for nouns or for words that take the place of nouns. 9. Antecedents are nouns or words that take the place of nouns to which pronouns refer. 10. Personal pronouns refer to the person speaking (first person), the person spoken to (second person), or the person, place, or thing spoken about (third person) 11. A reflexive pronoun ends in -self or -selves and indicated that someone or something in the sentence acts for or on itself. A reflexive pronoun is essential to the meaning of a sentence. 12. An intensive pronoun ends in -self or -selves and simply adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun in the sentence. 13. The reciprocal pronoun each other and one another refer to a plural antecedent. They express a mutal action or relationship. 14. A demonstrative pronoun directs attention to a specific person, place, or thing. 15. A relative pronoun introduces an adjective clause and connects it to the word that the clause modifies.