Ch. 1: Part 1

 Noun  Person, place, thing, or idea  Examples: dog, teacher, laughter, store  Practice: Find the noun in the sentence  Susan slipped on some water and fell.

 Common nouns: name any person, place, thing or idea. These are general nouns.  Examples: man, holiday, language  Proper nouns: name a particular person, place, thing, or idea. These nouns are specific.  Examples: Langston Hughes, Halloween, English  Practice: Which of these nouns is proper?  High School or Knight High School

 Concrete noun: a person, place, or thing that can be experienced through the senses (sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell)  Examples: fire, garlic, laughter  Abstract noun: ideas, feelings, qualities, and characteristics. These nouns cannot be experienced through the senses  Examples: love, honesty, loyalty  Practice: Is the noun abstract or concrete?  Freedom  Sentence

 Collective Nouns: names a group of similar people, places or things  Examples: family, pack, fleet  Compound Nouns: two or more words that together name a person, place, thing, or idea.  Can be written as a single word, two words, or a hyphenated word  Examples: sidewalk, high school, great-grandfather  Practice: Is the noun collective or compound?  Football team

 Open your textbook to page 5.  Complete Review A, #1-10  Please note that most of the italicized nouns are at least 2 different nouns types (so you have 2 answers)

 Pronoun: takes the place of one or more nouns.  I, me, we, us, you, she, her, they, them, he, him, it  The word the pronoun replaces is called the antecedent.  Example: John did not want to ride the bus. He wanted to walk.  The pronoun He replaces the antecedent John  Practice: Identify the pronoun and antecedent.  Mariah and Anthony went to the mall. They were shopping for presents.

 Personal Pronouns: the person speaking or being spoken about  Example: You won several awards, I hear.  You = person spoken about, I = person speaking  Demonstrative Pronouns: points out a specific person, place, thing or idea  This, that, these, those  Example: This is my favorite song.  This points out a specific song.  Practice: Find the pronoun(s):  I like this dress the best.

 Intensive & Reflexive  Same set of pronouns:  Myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves  Reflexive: this pronoun refers to the subject of a sentence; adds extra emphasis to the subject  Example: I decorated the house myself.  Intensive: refers to the antecedent and comes before the verb  Example: Mike himself organized the party.  Practice: Is this intensive or reflexive?  We made dinner ourselves.

 Interrogative pronoun: these pronouns introduce questions  What, which, who, whom, and whose  Example: What is the answer to the question?  Relative pronoun: introduces an adjective clause  That, which, who, whom, whose  For example: Joseph is the man who is running for office.

 Indefinite pronoun: refers to a person, place, idea, or thing that may or may not be specifically named.  Refer to chart on page 7 for all the indefinite pronouns. Some examples are: all, both, each, several  Example: Jonathon packed everything necessary for the trip.

 Open your textbook to pages 8-9.  Complete Exercise 1, #1-10  1) himself-intensive, everyone-indefinite, Who-relative, one-indefinite, him-personal  Complete Review B, #1-10  #11-20 are Extra Credit  You do not have to copy the paragraph. Just write down the answers.