COW Unit 1Nouns & Pronouns

Mrs. Tweedy7th Grade ELA

Writing

Kinds of Nouns

• A noun is a word that names a person, place, things, or idea.

• A common noun names a nonspecific person, place, thing, or idea and is not capitalized.– Teacher, city, video game, month

• A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea and is ALWAYS capitalized. –Mrs. Tweedy, Seattle, Playstation,

October

Singular & Plural Nouns

• A singular noun names ONE person, place, thing, or idea.– Student, town, television

• A plural noun names MORE THAN ONE person place thing or idea.– Students, towns, televisions

Concrete & Abstract Nouns

• A concrete noun names a person, place, or thing that can be SEEN or TOUCHED.– Police officer, school, pillow, cat, water

• An abstract noun names an idea, which CANNOT be touched. – December, Christmas, hunger, Friday,

beauty

Collective Nouns

• A collective noun is a group of people or things.–When the collective noun refers to a

group as a whole, use a singular verb.• The army retreated.

–When the collective noun refers to the individual members of the group, use the plural form of the verb. • The class votes for student president next

week.

Appositives

• An appositive is a word or group of words that follows a nouns and identifies or explains it.

• Use commas to set off most appositives.–Mrs. Tweedy, my English teacher, loves

polka dots.–My teacher’s daughter, Addison, is

obsessed with Bubble Guppies.

Possessive Nouns

• A possessive noun is a noun that names who or what has something.

• Use an apostrophe (‘) and s to form the possessive of most singular nouns and of plural nouns that do not already end in s.– Dog Dog’s

• Use only an apostrophe (‘) to form the possessive of plural nouns that already end in s.– Winners Winners’

Pronouns

• A pronoun takes the place of one or more nouns and the words that go with them. – My sister She– The dog It

• Use a subject pronoun as the subject of a sentence.

• Use an object pronoun and the object of a verb or preposition.

• An antecedent is the word that a pronoun refers to.– Mr. Irion He (not they, she, or it)

Indefinite Pronouns

• An indefinite pronoun does not refer to a specific person, place, or thing.

• Any possessive pronoun (hers, his, ours, mine) used with and indefinite pronoun must agree with it’s number and gender. – Singular: another, each, everything, nobody,

someone– Plural: both, few, many, others, several– Singular or Plural: all, any, most, none, some

Possessive Pronouns

• A possessive pronoun shows who or what owns something.

• Possessive pronouns can come before a noun or stand alone.

• Possessive pronouns NEVER have apostrophies.

Contractions

• A contraction is a word made by combine two words into one by leaving out one or more letters.

– I will I’ll– I am I’m – He is He’s

Whose, Who, Whom

• An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces an interrogative sentence.

• Whose, who, and whom are interrogative pronouns.

• Use who as the subject of a sentence. –Who wants to go to a movie today?

• Use whom as the object of a sentence.– To whom should I write this check?

Demonstrative Pronouns

• A demonstrative pronoun points out something and stands alone in a sentence.– This, that, these, those

Reflexive & Intensive Pronouns

• A reflexive pronoun directs the action of the verb to the subject. – She reminded herself to study for the

test.

• An intensive pronoun adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun already named.– She herself was not interested in going

to the dance.

There, They’re, & Their

• There– Used when referring to a place

• We went there for dinner last night. • My keys are over there.

• They’re– A contraction

• They are They’re

• Their– A pronoun referring to two or more possessing

something. • We went to their house for dinner.• Their dog ran away.