Eight Parts of Speech
Concrete Nouns
name objects that can be
perceived by the senses.
EXAMPLES:
desk, car, tree, house, pencil,
computer, textbook, lamp, bed, envelope
Abstract Nouns
name ideas, emotions, and
other things that cannot be perceived by the
senses. Some common suffixes for Abstract
Nouns include -
ism
, -
ition
, -
ship
, -
ness
,
-
ment
, -
ability.
EXAMPLES:
patriotism, communism, nation,
exaggeration, friendship, relationship,
happiness, stillness, temperament,
experiment, likability, fallibility, fear, love
Proper Nouns
name specific people,
places, objects, and ideas. Proper Nouns
can be concrete or abstract and are always
capitalized.
EXAMPLES:
United States, President Obama,
Boston, France, Madison Square Garden,
Hinduism, Indian Ocean, Red Sox, Boeing
Common Nouns
name general,
non-specific people, places, objects, and
ideas. Common Nouns can be concrete or
abstract and are not capitalized.
EXAMPLES:
paper clip, stapler, computer,
fear, hope, love, flavor, humanity, space,
envelope, pancake
Objective Pronouns
replace nouns that
are the object of the sentence, receiving a
verb’s action or following a preposition.
EXAMPLES: me
,
you
,
us
,
him
,
her
,
them
Usage:
“There is a distance between
you
and
me.
”
“Let
them
eat cake!”
Nominative Pronouns
replace nouns that
are the subjects of a sentence or a clause.
EXAMPLES:
I
,
you
,
we
,
he
,
she
,
they
Usage:
“
I
owe
him an explanation.”
“
They
drank soda to their hearts’ content.”
Possessive Pronouns
show ownership.
Unlike possessive nouns, possessive
pronouns never contain apostrophes.
EXAMPLES: his
,
hers
,
theirs
,
your
,
yours
,
ours
,
whose
Usage:
“
Whose
woods these are, I do not know.”
“Is that
your
Ferrari or
hers
?”
Nouns
A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Nouns can be further divided into subcategories:
Pronouns
Pronouns are words that replace nouns in a sentence.
Pronouns can be further divided into subcategories:
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