Tuesday, 2 February 2016

How to identify pronouns

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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