Nouns And Pronouns Flashcards
What are Concrete Nouns?
Tangible (can physically touch) objects
What are Abstract Nouns?
Feelings, ideas, and intangible objects
What are the six categories of Pronouns?
- Relative
- Interrogative
- Demonstrative
- Indefinite
- Personal
- Reflexive
What are Relative Pronouns?
Introduces a dependent clause
-who, whom, whose, which, that
What are Interrogative Pronouns?
Questions
-who? whom? whose? which? what?
What are Reflexive pronouns?
Reflects or intensifies
-myself, itself, herself …
What are Indefinite Pronouns?
For an unnamed antecedent
- someone, anyone, everybody…
What are Demonstrative Pronouns?
Points out
-this, that, those
What are Personal Pronouns?
Takes the place of nouns naming things or people
- Nominative, Objective, Possessive Case
What is the Nominative Case used for?
subjects and subject complements (predicate nouns)
What is the Objective Case used for?
direct, indirect, and object of preposition
What are the two types of Possessive Cases?
Pronominal Adjectives: takes place of possessive nouns (my, her, his…)
Independent Possessive: replaces whole possessive noun phrase (Those keys are my keys > Those keys are mine)
