A noun is a word or word group that names a person, place, thing. Quality, idea or action.

Noun examples

Person- Mr. Merritt Place- Mona Shores Thing- Flower Quality-Wisdom Idea- Patriotism Action- Decision

Other types and examples

Proper nouns can be a particular person, place, thing, or idea and will always be capitalized

Mr. Merritt is a proper noun Muskegon is a proper noun Lake Michigan is a proper noun Valentines Day is a proper noun Languages, religions, organizations, titles of

people, poems and books, paintings, and other works of art are all proper nouns.

Common nouns

Names any member of a large class of persons, places, things, ideas

Collective nouns

Name people or things thought of as a single group like:

Audience, class, club, committee, couple, crowd, family, group, herd, mob, people, public, series, team, youth.

Compound Nouns

Are made up of two or more words. Some are written as one word, some are hyphenated, and some are written as two words.

Examples are sweatsuit, self-confidence, and finish line.

Plural nouns

Are formed either by adding s, es Possessive nouns have and apostrophe

plus s

Pronouns

Pronouns

A pronoun is a word that can replace an noun.

There are many forms: personal, possessive, interrogative, indefinite and demonstrative.

Examples of personal pronouns I, me, you, he, him, she, her, it, we, us,

you, they and them

Possessive pronouns

My, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, your, yours, their, theirs

Interrogative

Who, whom, which, what

Indefinite and demonstrative Another, each, everyone, nobody,

somebody, anyone, either, everything, no one, someone, anything, everybody, neither, nothing, something, both, few, many, several

This, that, these, those

Verbs

Verbs

An action verb names the subject’s action in a sentence.

A linking verb connects the subject of a sentence with another word in the sentence. It could be an adjective (predicate adjective) or a noun/pronoun (predicate nominative)

Examples of linking verbs

Be, am, is, was, are, were, being, seem, appear, become, grow, remain, stay, feel, taste, smell, sound, look.

A linking verb does not show action. Instead it connects, the subject of a sentence with a noun, pronoun, or adjective in the predicate.

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