NOUNS PRONOUNS VERBS REVIEW NOUN PERSON PLACE THING

NOUNS, PRONOUNS, VERBS REVIEW

NOUN = PERSON, PLACE, THING, IDEA Person: Stephanie, Dr. Edelstein, teacher Place: Chicago, island, Italy, college Thing: novel, surfboard, bicycle, horse Idea (feelings, concepts, measurements, activities): happiness, knowledge, dancing, inch

TYPES OF NOUNS – COMMON + PROPER What do these nouns have in common? book teacher president store car boat island COMMON NOUNS What do these nouns have in common? The Outsiders Ms. Pankey Barack Obama Books-a-Million S. S. Minnow Hawaii PROPER NOUNS

TYPES OF NOUNS – COMMON + PROPER COMMON NOUNS Names a person, place, thing, or idea, but it is not specific to a CERTAIN ONE. PROPER NOUNS Names a particular/specific person, place, thing, or idea. Almost always capitalized. Can a noun be both common and proper? No.

TYPES OF NOUNS – CONCRETE + ABSTRACT What do these nouns have in common? hummingbird telephone teacher popcorn ocean cat CONCRETE NOUNS What do these nouns have in common? knowledge patriotism love humor beauty Christianity Buddhism ABSTRACT NOUNS

TYPES OF NOUNS – CONCRETE + ABSTRACT CONCRETE NOUNS Name a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses. ABSTRACT NOUNS Names an idea, feeling, quality, or characteristic. Can a noun be both concrete and abstract? NO

EXERCISE ON PAGE 76 (LANGUAGE BOOK) Review A Number your paper 1 -5. SKIP LINES Read sentences 1 -5. Write down EVERY noun in each sentence. Only put one noun on each line. Look at each noun. Beside it, write whether it is COMMON or PROPER and whether it is CONCRETE or ABSTRACT. You should have 3 words written on each line: The noun, common/proper, concrete/abstract.

PRONOUN A word used in the place of a noun. When Kelly saw the signal, Kelly pointed the signal out to Enrique. When Kelly saw the signal, she pointed it out to Enrique. The word that the pronoun is taking the place of is called the antecedent.

EXERCISE ON PAGE 78 On the same sheet of notebook paper, number 6 -10. Look at sentences 6 -10. Write down all the pronouns in each sentence. Remember that pronouns can be: � Personal (I, me, we, she, he) � Reflexive/Intensive (myself, himself, ourselves) � Demonstrative (that, these, those) � Relative(that, which, whom, whose) � Interrogative (which, what, whom)

VERBS Verbs express an action, an occurrence, or a state of being.

VERB TYPES What do these verbs have in common? built run baked swimming chop fight dance ACTION VERBS What do these verbs have in common? am is were be being feels appears tastes seems looks LINKING VERBS

VERB TYPES ACTION VERBS Verbs that express either a physical or mental activity. LINKING VERBS Verbs that connect the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject. Sometimes, you need a linking verb + another main verb to create a verb phrase that expresses what the subject does.

EXERCISE ON PG. 103 Number your paper 1 -10. Identify and write down the verbs or verb phrases used in each sentence. Remember these can be action, linking, or verb phrases. Whatever the subject is DOING!