Nouns & Pronouns

1. COW Unit 1
Nouns & Pronouns
Mrs. Tweedy
7th Grade ELA
Writing

2. Kinds of Nouns
• A noun is a word that names a person,
place, things, or idea.
• A common noun names a nonspecific
person, place, thing, or idea and is not
capitalized.
– Teacher, city, video game, month
• A proper noun names a specific person,
place, thing, or idea and is ALWAYS
capitalized.
– Mrs. Tweedy, Seattle, Playstation, October

3. Singular & Plural Nouns
• A singular noun names ONE person,
place, thing, or idea.
– Student, town, television
• A plural noun names MORE THAN ONE
person place thing or idea.
– Students, towns, televisions

4. Concrete & Abstract Nouns
• A concrete noun names a person, place,
or thing that can be SEEN or TOUCHED.
– Police officer, school, pillow, cat, water
• An abstract noun names an idea, which
CANNOT be touched.
– December, Christmas, hunger, Friday, beauty

5. Collective Nouns
• A collective noun is a group of people or
things.
– When the collective noun refers to a group as
a whole, use a singular verb.
• The army retreated.
– When the collective noun refers to the
individual members of the group, use the
plural form of the verb.
• The class votes for student president next week.

6. Appositives
• An appositive is a word or group of words
that follows a nouns and identifies or
explains it.
• Use commas to set off most appositives.
– Mrs. Tweedy, my English teacher, loves polka
dots.
– My teacher’s daughter, Addison, is obsessed
with Bubble Guppies.

7. Possessive Nouns
• A possessive noun is a noun that names who
or what has something.
• Use an apostrophe (‘) and s to form the
possessive of most singular nouns and of
plural nouns that do not already end in s.
– Dog  Dog’s
• Use only an apostrophe (‘) to form the
possessive of plural nouns that already end
in s.
– Winners  Winners’

8. Pronouns
• A pronoun takes the place of one or more
nouns and the words that go with them.
– My sister  She
– The dog  It
• Use a subject pronoun as the subject of a
sentence.
• Use an object pronoun and the object of a
verb or preposition.
• An antecedent is the word that a pronoun
refers to.
– Mr. Irion  He (not they, she, or it)

9. Indefinite Pronouns
• An indefinite pronoun does not refer to a
specific person, place, or thing.
• Any possessive pronoun (hers, his, ours,
mine) used with and indefinite pronoun
must agree with it’s number and gender.
– Singular: another, each, everything, nobody,
someone
– Plural: both, few, many, others, several
– Singular or Plural: all, any, most, none, some

10. Possessive Pronouns
• A possessive pronoun shows who or what
owns something.
• Possessive pronouns can come before a
noun or stand alone.
• Possessive pronouns NEVER have
apostrophies.

11. Contractions
• A contraction is a word made by combine
two words into one by leaving out one or
more letters.
– I will  I’ll
– I am  I’m
– He is  He’s

12. Whose, Who, Whom
• An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun that
introduces an interrogative sentence.
• Whose, who, and whom are interrogative
pronouns.
• Use who as the subject of a sentence.
– Who wants to go to a movie today?
• Use whom as the object of a sentence.
– To whom should I write this check?

13. Demonstrative Pronouns
• A demonstrative pronoun points out
something and stands alone in a
sentence.
– This, that, these, those

14. Reflexive & Intensive Pronouns
• A reflexive pronoun directs the action of
the verb to the subject.
– She reminded herself to study for the test.
• An intensive pronoun adds emphasis to a
noun or pronoun already named.
– She herself was not interested in going to the
dance.

15. There, They’re, & Their
• There
– Used when referring to a place
• We went there for dinner last night.
• My keys are over there.
• They’re
– A contraction
• They are  They’re
• Their
– A pronoun referring to two or more possessing
something.
• We went to their house for dinner.
• Their dog ran away.