1. Grammar: Nouns & Pronouns

2. Nouns Names a person, place, thing, or idea. Examples:
Person: Uncle Mike, neighbor, girls, Bob, swimmer, Ms. Yang, Captain Smith
Place: library, Dallas, garden, city, kitchen, James River, canyon, Oklahoma
Visible Things: chair, pencil, school, duck, daffodil, fort
Ideas: independence, democracy, militarism, capitalism, recession, freedom
Actions: work, research, exploration, competition, exercise, labor
Conditions: sadness, illness, excitement, joy, health, happiness
Qualities: kindness, patience, ability, compassion, intelligence, drive

3. Nouns Concrete Abstract
Names something you can see, touch, taste, hear, or smell.
Examples
Person
Cannon
Road
City
Music
Names something you cannot perceive through any of your five senses.
Examples
Hope
Improvement
Independence
Desperation
cooperation

4. Practice Assignment
Step 1: Complete practice 13.1A questions 1-10 on page 297.
Step 2: Using the grammar answer book check each answer. Correct your answers using a different color of writing. Provide one-two complete sentence explanation on why that is the correct answer.
Step 3: Label this assignment 13.1 A. Go to next slide
Completed by: Tuesday, October 6 (Black) / Wednesday, October 7 (Orange)

5. Nouns Collective Compound
Names a group of people or things.
Looks singular, but meaning may be singular or plural.
Examples
Army
Cast
Choir
Class
Troop
Crew
Faculty
Legislature
Made up of two or more words acting as a single unit.
May be written as separate words, hyphenated words, or combined.
Examples
Life preserver
Daughter-in-law
Cornfield

6. Nouns
Common
Proper
Names any one of a class of people, places, or things.
Examples
Aunt
Pilot
Coach
Person
Names a specific person, place, or thing.
Examples
Dad
Mom
Jake
NASA
Grandma
Aunt Sarah

7. Practice Assignment
Step 1: Complete practice 13.1B questions on page 297.
Step 2: Using the grammar answer book check each answer. Correct your answers using a different color of writing. Provide one-two complete sentence explanation on why that is the correct answer.
Step 3: Label this assignment 13.1 B. Go to next slide
Completed by: Tuesday, October 6 (Black) / Wednesday, October 7 (Orange)

8. Pronouns
Words that stand for nouns or for words that take the place of nouns.
Help writers and speakers avoid awkward repetition of nouns.

9. pronouns
Antecedents
Nouns or words that take the place of nouns to which pronouns refer.
Examples:
Michael said he lost his watch at the fair.
Antecedent: Michael
Pronoun: he, his
Because of its carnival, Rottweil, Germany, is my favorite city.
Antecedent: Rottweil
Pronoun: its

10. Practice Assignment
Step 1: Complete practice 13.1C questions 1-10 on page 302.
Step 2: Using the grammar answer book check each answer. Correct your answers using a different color of writing. Provide one-two complete sentence explanation on why that is the correct answer.
Step 3: Label this assignment 13.1 C. Go to next slide
Completed by: Thursday, October 8 (Black) / Wednesday, October 13 (Orange)

11. Pronouns Personal Reflexive Ends in –self or –selves.
Refer to the person speaking (first person), the person spoken to (second person), or the person, place, or thing spoken about (third person).
First person: I, me, my, mine, we, us our, ours
Second person: you, your, yours,
Third person: he, him, his, she, her, it, they, them, their
Ends in –self or –selves.
Indicates that someone or something in the sentence acts for or on itself.
Essential to the meaning of a sentence.
Example:
The settlers prepared themselves for a feast.

12. Pronouns Intensive Ends in –self or –selves.
Adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun in the sentence.
Example
The leader himself cooked the turkey.

13. Practice assignment
Step 1: Complete practice 13.1D questions on page 302.
Step 2: Using the grammar answer book check each answer. Correct your answers using a different color of writing. Provide one-two complete sentence explanation on why that is the correct answer.
Step 3: Label this assignment 13.1 D. Go to next slide
Completed by: Thursday, October 8 (Black)/ Wednesday, October 13 (Orange)

14. PRONOUNS Reciprocal Pronouns Examples:
Each other and one another refer to a plural antecedent.
Express a mutual action or relationship
Examples:
The two dogs shook water all over each other.
The class collected books from one another.

15. Practice assignment
Step 1: Complete practice 13.1E questions 1-10 on page 303. Label this section E.
Step 2: Complete practice 13.1F questions on page 303. Label this section F.
Step 3: Using the grammar answer book check each answer. Correct your answers using a different color of writing. Provide one-two complete sentence explanation on why that is the correct answer.
Step 4: Go to next slide
Completed by: Thursday, October 8 (Black) / Wednesday, October 13 (Orange)

16. pronouns Demonstrative Relative
Directs attention to a specific person, place, or thing.
Used to point our one or more nouns.
May come before or after their antecedents.
Singular: this, that
Plural: these, those
Examples:
That is the ranch I would like to own.
I hope to visit Butte and Helena. Those are my first choices.
Introduces an adjective clause and connects it to the word that the clause modifies.
Used to relate one idea in a sentence to another.
Pronouns: that, which, who, whom, whose
Examples:
We read a book that contained an account of the settler’s experiences.
The winter, which they knew would be harsh, was fast approaching.

17. Practice Assignment
Step 1: Complete practice 13.1G questions 1-10 on page 305. Label this section G.
Step 2: Complete practice 13.1H questions on page 305. Label this section H.
Step 3: Using the grammar answer book check each answer. Correct your answers using a different color of writing. Provide one-two complete sentence explanation on why that is the correct answer.
Step 4: Go to next slide
Completed by: Thursday, October 8 (Black) / Wednesday, October 13 (Orange)

18. pronouns Interrogative Indefinite Used to begin a question.
Pronouns: what, which, whom whom, whose
Example:
Who picked up the children?
Refers to a person, place, or thing that may or may not be specifically named.
Sometimes have specific antecedents.
Singular
another everyone nothing
anybody everything one
anyone little other
anything much somebody
each neither someone
either nobody something
everybody no one
Plural
both
few
many
others
several
Both
all
any
more
most
none
some

19. Practice assignment
Step 1: Complete practice 13.1l questions 1-10 on page 307. Label this section L.
Step 2: Complete practice 13.1J questions on page 307. Label this section J.
Step 3: Using the grammar answer book check each answer. Correct your answers using a different color of writing. Provide one-two complete sentence explanation on why that is the correct answer.
Step 4: All practice assignments are now completed. Please put your name on the top and staple all practice assignments together. Go to next slide.
Completed by: Wednesday, October 14 (Black) / Thursday, October 15 (Orange)

20. Final assignment
Step 1: Complete the nouns and pronouns worksheet. Please make sure you write your name on the top.
Step 2: Choose one of the following activities to complete:
Muckberry Gazette: You are an editor for the Muckberry Gazette.
Weird Careers: Using the internet, find out about a really, really strange career.
Step 3: Once finished please staple your chosen activity to the worksheet. Make sure your name is on the top. Hand in your practice assignments, completed worksheet, and activity.
Completed by: Wednesday, October 14 (Black) / Thursday, October 15 (Orange) due by 4pm
Last day to work in class: Thursday, October 8 (Black)/ Tuesday, October 12 (Orange)