1. Unit 1 Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives ch. 14, 16.1 7 th English

2.  Nouns—words that name a person, place, thing, or idea  Ex: person—Mr. Law, principal place—Newport News, city thing—pencil, binder idea—courage, fear

3. 1.Collective nouns—nouns that name a group of people or things  Ex: team, class, committee, club Types of nouns:

4. 2.Compound nouns—nouns that are made up of two or more words  Can be separate words, hyphenated words, or combined words  Separated: middle school, post office  Hyphenated: mother-in-law, make-up work  Combined: doorknob, railroad, grandmother

5. 3.Common nouns—nouns that name any type of person, place, or thing  Ex: writer, park, document 4.Proper nouns—nouns that name a specific person, place, or thing  Proper nouns ALWAYS begin with a capital letter  Ex: writer—William Shakespeare park—Yellowstone National Park document—Declaration of Independence

6.  Pronouns—words that take the place of nouns or groups of words acting as nouns  Ex: Sally explained how she received her award.  Ex: The book The Hobbit is about a treasure hunt, and it is over 200 pages long.

7.  Antecedent—the noun (or group of words acting as a noun) for which the pronoun stands  Ex: Sally explained how she received her award.  Ex: The book The Hobbit is about a treasure hunt, and it is over 200 pages long.  The antecedent usually comes before the pronoun.  The antecedent may be in a previous sentence.

8. 1.Personal pronouns—these pronouns refer to the person speaking, the person spoken to, or the person, place or thing spoken about  Person speaking—1 st person  Person spoken to—2 nd person  Person, place or thing spoken about—3 rd person  Memorize the chart in your notes! Types of Pronouns:

9. 2.Demonstrative pronouns—pronouns that point out specific people, places, or things  singular—this, that plural—these, those  Ex: That is my book. These pencils are mine.

10. 3.Interrogative pronouns—pronouns used to begin questions  who, what, which, whom, whose  Ex: What is due tomorrow?

11. 4.Indefinite pronouns—pronouns used to refer to unspecific people, places, or things  Memorize the chart in your notes!  Ex: Everyone will be attending the play. Both of us are sick. Some of the pizza is left.

12.  Adjectives—words used to describe (modify) nouns or pronouns  Adjectives answer these questions:  What kind? a new car  Which one? my car  How many? many cars  How much? no cars

13.  Usually the adjective comes directly before the noun it describes/ modifies  Ex: The shiny, red car is Henry’s car. Henry’s car is shiny and red.

14. Articles—adjectives that answer the question which one?  2 kinds: definite (specific) and indefinite (unspecific)  Only the words “a,” “an,” and “the” are articles  Definite article: the  Ex: the book, the dog  Indefinite articles: a, an  Ex: a dog, a book

15. 1.Proper adjectives—proper nouns used as an adjective or adjectives formed from a proper noun  Ex: December weather, American history Types of adjectives:

16. 2.Compound adjectives—adjectives made up of more than 1 word  Can be hyphenated or combined words  Ex: a well-known actress a freshwater lake 3.Demonstrative adjectives—demonstrative pronouns used to describe/modify a noun  This, that, these, those  Ex: This book is mine.

17. 4.Interrogative adjectives— interrogative pronouns used as adjectives  Which, what, whose  Ex: Whose book is this?

18. 5.Personal pronouns can be used as possessive adjectives  my, your, his, her, its, our, their 6.Nouns can be used as adjectives  By itself the word is a noun, but when it is describing another word its an adjective  Usually comes directly before the noun it describes/modifies  Ex: shoe salesperson owl sanctuary