Nouns and pronouns
Nouns
A noun is the name of a place, person or thing.
There are two forms of nouns:
Common noun
Names of any class of person, animal place or things.
A proper noun
Direct names of person, thing and place.
Common nouns e.g: Proper nouns e.g :
Town Jamaica
Chief Almond Davis
dog Brownie
What about a collective noun and a compound noun?
A collective noun is a noun of groups of one people or things.
A compound noun is of two, three or more words.
Pronouns
A pronouns is word that takes the place of a noun.
Personal pronouns
Singular plural
( One person) I, me, mine my we, us, our, ours
( Two person) You, your, yours you, your, yours
(Three person) he, him, his they, them, those,
her, she, hers theirs, their
It, its
To demonstrate with a pronoun
Points directly towards a place, person or thing.
This is called demonstrative pronouns.
e.g These mangoes are the sweetest ever.
Those boys are properly dressed.
To interrogate with a pronoun
It's a direct starting of a question
Interrogative pronouns
e.g who took John's ball ?
Who is the boss here?
An indefinite pronoun signals a person, place or thing
Without being picky at none
e.g Many football are colors white
Everyone loved last weekend game.
A relative pronouns carry a subordinate clause then connect it to another part of sentence
I.e : that, whom, which, whose, who.
labeled nouns and pronouns in these sentences.
1. John, who pick those oranges?
2. Jamaica is the land of reggae, which is for soca.
3. The ship called Caribbean queen is my beauty choice.
4. They caught a little blue bird.
5. Shelly told me a story. She is the best dictator of all.
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