Nouns & Pronouns



Nouns & Pronouns

This five-week unit is actually a review of 1st – 4th grade standards. It is likely that your child did not receive this instruction in 1st – 3rd grades because these standards were not in place at that time.

What we will be learning:

subject/predicate (3rd grade) common nouns (1st grade)

proper nouns (1st grade) possessive nouns (1st grade)

collective nouns (2nd grade) irregular plural nouns (2nd grade)

abstract nouns (3rd grade) personal pronouns (1st grade)

possessive pronouns (1st grade) indefinite pronouns (1st grade)

reflexive pronouns (2nd grade) antecedents (3rd grade)

pronoun/antecedent agreement (3rd) relative pronouns (4th grade)

A sentence has two parts, a subject and a predicate. The subject is the beginning of a sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about. It will have a noun or pronoun in it. The predicate is the last part of a sentence that tells what happened. This is where you will find the verb.

The little dog wagged his tail.

subject predicate

We drove to California last summer.

subject predicate

Nouns:

A common noun is a person, place, or thing.

|Person |Place |Thing |

|teacher |mall |game |

|baby |restaurant |shoe |

|doctor |attic |cookie |

|pianist |theater |car |

A proper noun is a specific name of a person, place, or thing. Proper nouns always begin with a capital letter.

|Person |Place |Thing |

|Mrs. Stacey |Huntington Mall |Call of Duty |

|Zander |Tres Hermanos |Chuck Taylors |

|Dr. Oreta |Reggie’s Attic |Oreo |

|Mozart |Paramount |Jeep |

A noun that names a person, place, or thing is also known as a concrete noun. It can be touched, seen, smelled, tasted, or heard.

An abstract noun is something that can’t be sensed by our 5 senses; they are feelings, ideas, characteristics, or qualities. Examples include love, violence, culture, taste, etc.

When there are two or more of a noun, it is a plural noun. Most nouns simply add –s or –es to make the plural form.

Irregular plural nouns are nouns that cannot be made plural by simply adding –s or –es.

|Regular Plural Nouns |Irregular Plural Nouns |

|papers |wolves |

|kids |children |

|dishes |feet |

|blankets |mice |

|churches |sheep |

A possessive noun shows ownership. To show possession, add an apostrophe and an s to the end of a singular noun.

|Singular Noun |Possessive Singular Noun |

|Sofia |Sofia’s |

|dog |dog’s |

|Mike |Mike’s |

|truck |truck’s |

If a plural noun ends in s, just add an apostrophe.

|Plural Noun |Possessive Plural Noun |

|the boys |the boys’ hangout |

|those kids |those kids’ shoes |

|my bosses |my bosses’ offices |

If a plural noun does NOT end in s, add an apostrophe s.

|Plural Noun |Possessive Plural Noun |

|the women |the women’s restroom |

|my children |my children’s toys |

|the deer |the deer’s food |

A collective noun refers to things or people as a unit. Examples of collective nouns include family, police, class, team, crew, group, etc.

The class went on a field trip to the museum.

The yellow team won the championship game.

Pronouns:

Pronouns take the place of nouns. Without them, we would sound funny when we speak.

Gracie couldn’t wait to meet Gracie’s teacher and see Gracie’s friends that

Gracie missed over the summer.

Sounds funny!

Gracie couldn’t wait to meet her teacher and see her friends that she

missed over the summer.

The pronouns her & she replace the antecedent Gracie.

A personal pronoun replaces a noun that refers to people. The noun that is replaced by the pronoun is the antecedent

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|Personal Pronouns |

|I, me, you, he, him, she, her, it, they, them, we, us |

I, he, she, it, you, we, & they are subject pronouns. They are used in the subject of the sentence.

I like soup. She is nice. They live down the street. You are funny.

Me, you, him, her, it, them, & us are object pronouns. They are on the receiving end of the action.

Look at me. I saw him smile. Listen to them. They pranked us.

It is also important to make sure your pronoun and antecedent agree. In other words, Bob is not a ‘her’, but a ‘he’. If you are talking about one person, you cannot use the pronoun we, they, them, or us.

Jane watched his favorite show last night with his best friends.

The antecedent and pronoun do not agree.

A possessive pronoun is used to substitute a group of words that indicates a possession or ownership.

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|Possessive Pronouns |

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|mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs |

Indefinite pronouns do not refer to any specific person, thing, or amount.

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|Indefinite Pronouns |

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|no one, nobody, nothing, anyone, anybody, anything, everyone, everybody, everything, someone, somebody, |

|something, little, much, neither, either, each, one, several, few, both, many, some, any, most, all, none |

Reflexive pronouns are used to state the subject is performing the action. They end in ‘self’ and ‘selves’.

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|Reflexive Pronouns |

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|myself, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves |

A relative pronoun refers to a noun mentioned before and of which we are adding information. They are also used to join two or more sentences.

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|Relative Pronouns |

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|Who, whom, that, which, whose |

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