Noun & Pronoun

1. Noun & Pronoun Jade Lin, Levin Jiang ,Petty Wang Hyde Chen ,Hsiao Cheng Lucy Chiu ,Cindy Liao

2. Noun Definition: A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn, such as boy, year, school ,etc.

3. Categories of Noun 1. Count Noun: Two boys, three houses, etc. Mass Noun(non-count noun): Water, blood, air, childhood, etc. Collect Noun: Class, team, jury, etc.

4. Types of Noun 1. Common Noun: a noun referring to a person, place, or thing in a general sense Concrete Noun: a noun which names anything (or anyone) that you can perceive through your physical senses: touch, sight, taste, hearing, or smell

5. Types of Noun Abstract Noun: a noun which names anything which you can not perceive through your five physical senses, and is the opposite of a concrete noun.

6. Pronoun • Definition: • A pronoun can replace a noun or another • pronoun. You use pronouns like "he," • "which," "none," and "you" to make • Your sentences less cumbersome and less • repetitive.

7. Types of Pronoun Personal Pronouns :I, me, you, he, him, she... Personal pronouns are pronouns used as substitutes for proper or common nouns. All known languages contain personal pronouns. Demonstrative Pronouns :this, that, these, those. Demonstrative Pronouns that substitute nouns when the nouns they replace can be understood from the context. They also indicate whether they are replacing singular or plural words and give the location of the object:

8. Possessive Pronouns :mine, yours, his... A possessive pronoun is a part of speech that substitutes for a noun phrase that begins with a possessive determiner.

9. Reflexive Pronouns :myself, yourself, himself... A reflexive pronoun is a special kind of pronoun. It is usually used when the object of a sentence is the same as the subject, as you will see below. Each personal pronoun (such as I, you, and she) has its own reflexive form.

10. Reciprocal Pronouns :each other, one another the reciprocal pronouns that indicates that two people can carry out an action and get the consequences of that action at the same time.

11. Relative Pronouns :who, whom, which... pronoun that marks a relative clause within a larger sentence. It is called a relative pronoun because it relates the relative (and hence subordinate) clause to the noun that it modifies.

12. Indefinite Pronouns :another, much, nobody, few, such... Indefinite pronouns are words which replace nouns without specifying which noun they replace

13. Pronoun Case :subjective, objective, possessive The type of pronoun. In English, there are there types:Nominative Case(I, you , he), Objective Case(me ,you, him), and Objective Case(my , mine, his, hers).

14. Reference http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/pronouns.htmhttp://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/nouns.htm http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/pronouns.htmlhttp://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/nouns.html