NO U NS A ND P RO NO U NS

Purposive
Communication
 Identify Nouns and Pronouns.
OBJECTIVES
1

Correctly use Nouns and

CONTENTS 2 Pronouns
DIfferentiate the different
3 kinds of Nouns

Differentiate the different

4 kinds of Pronouns
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NOUNS
 What is a noun?
A noun is a word that names something, such as a :

PERSON PLACE THING IDEA

TYPES OF NOUNS

1. Common Nouns

Common nouns refer to people, places, things, or ideas in general terms. They aren’t
capitalized, and they aren’t specific.

Example : boy, girl, car, book.

• That boy looks really handsome.

• I saw a beautiful girl in my dream last night.

• A furious dog barking on a stranger.

• Have you read that book? Is it good?

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2. Proper Nouns

Proper nouns name specific nouns, which are always capitalized.

Example : Kathy, Taguig City University, Samsung, Lucky me.

• You don’t know how grateful I am Kathy.

• Taguig City University is a nice school.

• The best brand of phone for me is Samsung.

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3. Singular Nouns

A singular noun refers to one person, place, or thing.

Example : charger, sea, human, Earth

• Have you seen my type c charger ?

• Sea is the most beautiful yet mysterious natural form of water for me.

• Human intelligence created an artificial intelligence to ease our daily lives.

• A wonderful unique planet, that is Earth.

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4. Plural Nouns

A plural noun refers to more than one person, place, or thing. You can make a noun
plural by adding -s or -ies to the end (unless it’s an irregular noun).

Examples : singers, papers, batteries, glasses,

• There are so many talented singers in this world.

• I saw these papers under your desk, I’d kept it as I think it’s important to you.

• My phone batteries are running low, let’s finish this game quickly.

• You know I can’t clearly see without my glasses.

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5. Concrete Nouns

Concrete nouns exist physically. You can actually touch, see, feel, smell, or taste
them.

Examples : ice cream, pen, friend, mouse.

• One of my favorite desserts is ice cream.

• As you all can see this is a pen I bought yesterday.

• You know that friend of yours is really cute and charming.

• Look I had caught a mouse.

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6. Abstract Nouns

Abstract nouns refer to concepts or feelings that cannot be experienced concretely

or touched physically.

Examples : justice, evil, jealousy, freedom.

• I want an absolute equal justice for all.

• There are evils in this world pretending to be saint.

• Beware of jealousy as it may become a cause of your downfall.

• Too much freedom is harmful but much better to this world.

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7. Countable Nouns

Countable nouns are nouns that you can count. They can be singular or plural,
depending how many they are. They can also be modified by numbers or quantifying
determiners, such as many, most, more, or several.

Examples : Kilo(s), ball(s), game(s), letter(s)

• I had bought a kilo of chicken to make a curry for our lunch.

• Just look how bouncy those balls are.

• Give me a fair two games then it’s a deal.

• J is the first letter of my name.

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8. Uncountable Nouns

Uncountable nouns, also known as mass nouns, include nouns that can be
measured but not counted (such as intelligence or milk). They also include all
abstract nouns and usually do not take plural forms (you’d say milk, not milks).

Examples : water, air, hair, money

• Water is one of the most precious resources we have.

• I hope we could still get a fresh air in the future.

• He had a very shiny hair.

• All people in this world needs money.

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9. Collective Nouns

Collective nouns refer to a group of something in particular. They are treated as

singular nouns (even though they describe more than one noun) and use singular
verbs.

Examples : flock, colony, collection, savings.

• Look at those flock of pigeons waiting for their food.

• Come and see this colony of ants inside this aquarium.

• My grandfather have a collection of antique jars in his basement.

• I think I already have enough savings to buy a car.

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10. Compound Nouns

A compound noun contains two or more words that join together to make a single
noun. They can be one word (closed form), joined with a hyphen (hyphenated form),
or two words (open form).

Examples : bestfriend, caregiver, lawmaker, jobseeker

• You could have your soulmate as a bestfriend.

• I’m considering to hire a caregiver for my mother.

• Being a lawmaker is really hard due to its complexity.

• Yesterday I saw a line of jobseekers outside the balagtas building.

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11. Possessive Nouns

Possessive nouns show that a person, place, or thing owns something. Singular
possessive nouns end in an apostrophe and “S”. Some plural possessive nouns that
already end in an “S” just have an apostrophe at the end.

Examples : Salisip’s, bird’s, father’s, peoples’

• Salisip’s face is quite chubby but still have a unique appeal.

• Are you saying that that bird’s meat is delicious?

• All things inside here belongs to my father’s uncle.

• You cannot control, dictate peoples' decision-making.

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12. Special Nouns - special nouns are the kind of nouns that can be either singular or
plural. While some of them are only seen as singular or only plural in meaning.

Examples:

billiards, economics, genetics, news, clothes, goods, pants, corps and deer.

Economics is quite complicated.

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PRONOUNS
 What is a pronoun?

A pronoun is used in the place of a noun, it substitutes the noun in a paragraph or piece of writing to
avoid repetition of the noun. Pronouns can be used in singular and plural forms.

Generally speaking, pronouns allow us to shorten our sentences and make them sound less repetitive.
For example :

Jannah, Kate, Jeniffer went to the hospital to visit their father. As they can’t help but to be concern
about his condition.
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1. Possessive pronouns

A possessive pronoun is a pronoun that expresses possession, ownership, origin,

relationship, etc.

Example : mine, yours, his, hers.

• That ball belongs to me. - That ball’s mine.

• You’re not the owner of this place. - This place is not yours.

• I saw John’s father fixing their car last night. - Last night, I saw his father fixing their
car.

• These prices belongs to Jenna because she won the game. She won game, these
prices are hers.
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2. Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns are pronouns that we use to refer to people and, sometimes,
animals. The pronouns it, they, and them can also apply to objects.

Examples: you, she, he, it.

• You should never trust anyone completely.

• She’s the girl I’d always love.

• He is the man of my dreams.

• It is my pleasure to serve you.

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3. Relative pronouns

Relative pronouns connect dependent clauses to independent clauses.

Examples : who, that, which.

• I need to find a person who can read Swedish.

• She doesn’t want to eat a meal that is too spicy.

• This book, which ends on a cliffhanger, is really exciting.

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4. Reflexive pronouns

A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun used as an object of a verb that refers to the

same person or thing as the subject of the verb.

Examples : myself, yourself, itself, herself.

• Jake looked at himself in the mirror.

• I like to cheer myself up with foods.

• The silly clowns made fools of themselves.

• She really hate herself for not doing good in the exam.
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5. Intensive pronouns

Intensive pronouns refer back to the subject in order to add emphasis. Intensive
pronouns are identical in appearance to reflexive pronouns.

Examples : myself, yourself, herself.

• I built my house myself.

• The children made the cookies themselves.

• Often, the stress of giving a speech is worse than the speech itself.
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6. Indefinite pronouns

An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun that doesn’t specifically identify who or what it

is referring to.

Examples : some, somebody, anyone, anywhere.

• This note could have been written by anybody.

• Someone ate my lunch.

• The water splashed everywhere.

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7. Demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to point to specific things.

Examples : this, that, these.

• This is my favorite shirt.

• I don’t know what that is, but it definitely isn’t friendly.

• I need you to fix these.

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8. Interrogative pronouns

Interrogative pronouns are pronouns used to ask questions about unknown people
or things.

Examples : who, whom, what.

• Who wrote this letter?

• What is an amphibian?

• Which is the correct answer?

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9. Reciprocal pronouns

Reciprocal pronouns express mutual relationships or actions.

Examples : each other, one another.

• My sister and I love each other.

• The members of the team support one another.

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