Nouns and Pronouns-G2
Nouns and Pronouns-G2
Nouns and Pronouns-G2
PRONOUNS
Team 2
Table of contents
Comparison in using Noun and
A Theory B Pronoun between leader’s speech
and social newspaper
•A person
•An animal
● Personal names
Ex: Donal Trump,...
● Geographical names
PROPER NOUNS
Ex: The Nile,...
Calendar items
Ex: Easter
● Name of institutions/
organizations
1. CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS
1.2 NOUN CLASSES
COMMON
NOUNS
COMMON
NOUNS
COMMON
NOUNS
Concrete Abstract
Ex: chair, desk Ex: beauty
1. CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS
1.2 NOUN CLASSES
COMMON
NOUNS
Concrete Abstract
Ex: cat Ex: peace
1. CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS
1.3 QUANTIFIERS
2.1 NUMBER
Invariable
Variable Nouns that do not
Nouns that do vary vary
2. GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF NOUNS
2.1 Number
The singular form and plural form of nouns are not the same
2. GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF NOUNS
2.1.2 Variable nouns
Collective nouns
Ex: The school’s history
Vietnam’s water supply
2. GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF NOUNS
2.2 Case
2.2.2 “of” genitive
(In some instances, -s genitive can also be acceptable, but not all of
them)
2.3 GENDER
Animate Inanimate
Living people,
animals, and Things that are not
other organisms. alive
2. GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF NOUNS
2.3 GENDER
03
PRONOUN
03. Pronouns
3.2 Reflexive
3.7 Demonstrative
Personal EX: Jennifer saw a cat at the shelter; she adopted it.
pronouns
03. Pronouns
3.1 Personal pronouns
Subjective
Objective
forms
forms
I, you, we, they, he, Me, you, us, them, him, her,
she, it it
As subjects of finite verbs and As objects and prepositional complements.
subject complements. Ex: I saw her with him yesterday on the main street.
Ex: He hoped the passenger would In informal usage, they also occur as subject
be Mary and indeed it was she. complements and as the subject (chiefly 1st person)
of sentences whose predicates have been omitted
Ex: At least, I thought it was her.
Use plural reflexive pronouns for Do not use reflexive pronouns after the
singular subjects preposition of position or the preposition
"with" when meaning "companion".
Ex: Every student is asked to briefly EX: My daughter can never go to sleep without her
introduce themselves on the first day of favorite teddy bear beside her.
the class. Ex: I have my older brother with me in the school
marathon.
03. Pronouns
3.3 Reciprocal pronouns
Theymust
They mustdoing
be doing the same
the same thing
thing
For places, times and EX3: The library where we met (informal)
reason
=> The library at which we met (formal)
where, when, why, that
03. Pronouns
3.5 Relative pronouns
Can we drop the relative pronoun?
Can Cannot
In formal written
English who , whom, that, which who , whom, that, which
can drop if the information is related when it is related to the subject
It is best not to drop.
to the object of the sentence EX: The book which/that is called 'Peace' => X
EX: The man who/whom I borrowed
In informal and the book from. whom, which
=> The man I borrowed the book when it is next to the preposition
spoken English from EX: The man from whom I borrowed the
when, why book => X
common to drop but not Ex: The day when/that I met him=
always possible. The day I met him whose, where
Ex: The man whose book I borrowed
=> X
03. Pronouns
3.5 Relative pronouns
what, how: are NOT relative pronouns
What
Used to ask questions about
Who Whose
Used to ask questions about people. Used to ask questions about
people or objects.
EX: Who was driving the car? people or objects, always related
EX: What do you want for
to possession.
dinner?
Ex: Whose phone is that?
03. Pronouns
3.6 Interrogative pronouns
The difference between interrogative pronouns and
interrogative determiners
Look at that!
3.8
Universal pronouns are any pronouns
Universal that are all-encompassing, such as all,
pronouns each, and every– followed by a word like
–thing or –body.
03. Pronouns
3.8 Universal pronouns
Use 'all' with uncountable nouns, not Ex: I like all music. (not 'every music')
'every' Place all luggage on the scales. (not 'every
luggage')
03. Pronouns
3.9 Partitive pronouns
Cardinals Ordinals
Cardinal numerals: one, two, three, etc Ordinal numerals: first, second, third, etc.