Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs: A Guide to English Grammar

Noun: A noun is a word that identifies a person, animal, place, thing, or idea.

Concrete nouns are the names of things or people that we experience through our senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, or taste. Most nouns are concrete nouns.

For example:

Cats, dogs, tables, chairs, buses, and teachers are all concrete nouns.

Nouns name people, places, and things.

Abstract nouns cannot be detected by your five senses. You cannot see them, hear them, smell them, taste them, or feel them. Examples include dedication, destruction, curiosity, happiness, intelligence, and loyalty.

Proper nouns have two distinct features: They name specific, one-of-a-kind items, and they begin with capital letters, no matter where they occur within a sentence.

A noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, or idea. All nouns can be further classified as proper or common.

Common nouns are words used to name general items rather than specific ones. Go into your living room. What do you see? Lamp, chair, couch, TV, window, painting, pillow, candle – all of these items are named using common nouns.

Compound nouns are words for people, animals, places, things, or ideas, made up of two or more words. Most compound nouns are made with nouns that have been modified by adjectives or other nouns. Examples include bus stop, full moon, and toothpaste.

Pronoun: A pronoun is defined as a word or phrase that may be substituted for a noun or noun phrase, which once replaced.

A personal pronoun is a pronoun that is associated primarily with a particular person, in the grammatical sense: I, you, he, she, it.

A possessive pronoun is a part of speech that attributes ownership to someone or something. Like any other pronoun, it substitutes a noun phrase and can prevent its repetition. For example, in the phrase, "These glasses are mine, not yours", the words "mine" and "yours" are possessive pronouns.

Reflexive pronoun: We use a reflexive pronoun when we want to refer back to the subject of the sentence or clause. Reflexive pronouns end in "-self" (singular) or "-selves" (plural). Singular: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself.

Plural: ourselves, yourselves, themselves.

A relative pronoun is one which is used to refer to nouns mentioned previously, whether they are people, places, things, animals, or ideas. Relative pronouns can be used to join two sentences, for example: The cyclist who won the race trained hard. The pants that I bought yesterday are already stained.

A demonstrative pronoun: is a pronoun that is used to point to something specific within a sentence. These pronouns can indicate items in space or time, and they can be either singular or plural.

Near in time or distance: this, these

Far in time or distance: that, those

An indefinite pronoun does not refer to any specific person, thing, or amount. It is vague and "not definite." Some typical indefinite pronouns are:

all, another, any, anybody/anyone, anything, each, everybody/everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody/someone

Can anyone answer this question?

An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun which is used to make asking questions easy. There are just five interrogative pronouns. Each one is used to ask a very specific question or indirect question.

Which color do you prefer?

What do you want for dinner?

Which color do you prefer?

who

Verbs: A verb is one of the main parts of a sentence or question in English.

Linking verbs do not express action. Instead, they connect the subject of the verb to additional information about the subject. Common linking verbs include "to be," "to become," and "to seem." Examples include is, being, are, I, was being.

My cats are content to nap on the couch, after drinking the old milk, Vladimir turned green.

Action verbs are verbs that specifically describe what the subject of the sentence is doing.

Sam and Eric ride the bus to school each morning. Jan wants a horse for her birthday. John reads a chapter in his book each night.