Nouns and Pronouns

Noun Definition – a noun is a person, place, thing or idea Examples: girl school dog love teacher library banana intelligence sister city desk secret

Proper Noun Definition – a SPECIFIC person, place or thing Examples: Proper nouns are capitalized. Examples: person place thing Ms. Gelz Chicago Titanic

Find the Nouns In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark. The only light came from great flood lamps mounted on the buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares. When the lights were on, they cast a yellowish glow over the streets; people walking by threw long shadows that shortened and then stretched out again. When the lights were off, as they were between nine at night and six in the morning, the city was so dark that people might as well have been wearing blindfolds.

IXL Practice 6th grade - s.1. If you finish, go on to 7th grade – Z.1

Pronouns Definition: A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun. Example: Bob, Dave and Kevin were late to the minion meeting. They were late to the minion meeting.

Olaf found his nose. Antecedent Definition: The word of group of words that a pronoun represents. Example: Olaf found his nose. pronoun antecedent

More Examples When Stuart saw a banana, Stuart screamed with joy! When Stuart saw a banana, he screamed with joy! There is a scratch on my whiteboard. It makes it difficult to write.

Pronouns to ask a question. Who Whom Which What Whoever whomever Whichever Whatever Who will you bring to the party?

IXL Practice Complete the following skills on IXL: 7th grade AA.1 EXTRA CREDIT: 7th grade AA.10