CHAPTER ONE Flashcards by tibor mojzis

nouns are anything that can be classified as

name, place, thing.

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common nouns - five types

singular or plural, abstract or concrete nouns, collective nouns.

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concrete nouns

able to identify by one of five senses

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collective nouns vs common nouns

collective nouns showing group of things, people same nouns - police, committee, team

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proper nouns one subgroup

compound nouns New York, proper specific name, place, capitalization

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role of nouns in a sentence

subject or object

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object noun

the object is receiving an action

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The chair was moved

object chair

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Jack asked Karen

object Karen

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pleural nouns

add s, add es

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pleural using add es

foxes, brushes, churches – all ending sh, zz ,

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pleural using add i / Latin origin /

octopus, fungus, alumnus

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nouns ending by s / z add s EXCEPT

quiz - quizzes, gas-gasses, fez-fezzes

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nouns ending fe, f

knife - knives, wolf -wolves, thief- thieves

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noun end on/um pleural will be / lat /

medium-media, criterium-criteria

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mosquito pleural

mosquitoes

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kangaroo pl

kangaroos

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studio

studios

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video

videos

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noun ending y pleural

ies

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baby pleural

babies

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sky pleural

skies

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key pleural

keys

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boy pleural

boys

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monkey pleural

monkeys

irregular plural nouns

see list

deer pleural

deer

moose plural

moose

fish plural

fish

shrimp plural

shrimp

aircraft plural

aircraft

series plural

series

goose

geese

mouse

mice

oxen, castrated bulls

possessive nouns dog plural, singular

dog's leash dogs' leash

deer possessive pleural

deer's

mouse

mice's

medium

media's

office lobby possessive

office lobby

garage door possessive

garage door

countable nouns using

a, an

collective nouns ? a ,an or the

the sugar

collective uncountable only the

sugar, milk, money, music, sand, news

plural possessive noun

children's, wife's, men's

single possessive noun

Velasquez's

possessive noun endings s

girls', dress'

possessive proper endings s noun

Chris's

a possessive nouns time expression

four days' trip, three years' experience, one month's salary

collective nouns are

nouns referring to a group of things, people, animals

collective nouns are treated as

singular nouns

collective nouns example

a band, a crowd, a government, a class, a team, a jury, a family

8 types of pronounce PRRDIII

personal, relative, reflexive, demonstrative, interpersonal, interrogative, intensive, indefinite

a pronoun can be used as

subject or object

personal pronouns

singular and plural

the reflexive pronoun refers to

the previous noun in a sentence

I helped --- reflexive pronoun

myself

relative pronoun WWWW

who, whom, which, what, that

The doctor, ---relative pronoun--I visited last year

whom

relative pronoun belongs interrogative pronouns

who, which, what

impersonal pronoun

formal writing, one, it

an indefinite pronoun is referred as

adjective pronoun

an indefinite or adjective pronoun more specific | AAAA-BEF-MMNSS

all, any, another, anybody--both, everything, few, | MOST, MORE, NEITHER, SOMEONE, SOMETHING

demonstrative pronouns

there, those, these, there

She was mean to ---

me / objective pronoun, pronoun being acted on

which verses that

which not critical part of sentence, that essential part of sentence, which thing, animal vs that thing, animal, person

I / Me

object/ subjective

types of subject nouns are

simple, complex, compound

the noun in a sentence can have two roles

subject or object

possessive nouns do not need

apostrophe your, her,

contraction pronouns should not be used

in work or academic writing

antecedents

are pronouns referring to previous noun / or directly used if reader known their meaning/

antecedent-pronoun agreement

same number

vague antecedent

do not use, without a previous noun. They cleaned the store. who are they?

indefinite pronouns

the amount can not be count, anybody, something, someone, some

implied antecedent

expected to understand even if not using nouns before

the antecedent is the word

is the NOUN that pronoun takes place or refers to.

compound antecedent with one in the plural and one in the singular form I hope that my sister or her friends will bring-----car

their cars, rule use number based on closest antecedent noun

the compound antecedent is made up of two words connected with either and or or

IF AND PRONOUN WILL BE PLURAL | IF OR WILL BE SING OR PLU

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