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Grammar Warm-up Quiz 1 Review

Grammar Warm-up Quiz 1 Review. Ms. Cothran English. Concrete and Abstract Nouns. Concrete nouns are persons, places, or things you can actually see and touch. Examples include: dog, table, school, Mr. Nix, Mrs. Sparks, Nick

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Grammar Warm-up Quiz 1 Review

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  1. Grammar Warm-up Quiz 1 Review Ms. Cothran English

  2. Concrete and Abstract Nouns • Concrete nouns are persons, places, or things you can actually see and touch. Examples include: dog, table, school, Mr. Nix, Mrs. Sparks, Nick • Abstract nouns are nouns that refer to ideas or emotions. Examples include: freedom, hope, love, sadness

  3. Common and Proper Nouns • Common nouns name persons, places, things, and ideas. Examples include: house, computer, town, class • Proper nouns name specific persons, places, things, and ideas. Examples include: Alabama, Jamaica, Colby, Greg

  4. Compound and Collective Nouns • A compound noun includes more than one word. Examples are: turtleneck, babysitter, football, living room • A collective noun names a group of people or things. Examples are: flock, crowd, group, team

  5. Pronouns • A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns. • Pronouns are used to eliminate repetition in speaking and writing. Example: The boy went to the game. He took his little brother with him. Pronouns are: he, his, him

  6. Pronouns and Antecedents • The word that the pronoun replaces is called its antecedent. Example: Veronica loves her new MP3 player. She uses it at the gym every day. (Veronica is the antecedent for her and She. MP3 player is the antecedent for it.)

  7. Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns • Reflexive and intensive pronouns are formed by adding -self or -selves to personal pronouns. • Examples: I usually make myself dinner if my parents work late. (reflexive) • I myself do not enjoy biking. (intensive)

  8. Indefinite Pronouns • Indefinite pronouns refer to unnamed people or things. They do not usually have definite antecedents. • Examples: Everyone I invited is coming to the party. • Have you seen anybody from class?

  9. Demonstrative and Interrogative Pronouns • Demonstrative pronouns are used to point out specific people, places, or things. This, that, these, and those are all demonstrative pronouns. Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions. What, which, who, whom, and whose are all interrogative pronouns.

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