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Pronouns, Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives
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9th Grade
01/06/2015

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Term
Noun
Definition
Person, Place, Thing, or Idea
Term
Common Noun
Definition
names any one group of persons, places, things, or ideas.
Term
Proper Noun
Definition
names a particular person, place, thing, or idea.
Term
Compound Noun
Definition
consists of two or more words that together name a person, place, thing, or idea.
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Concrete Noun
Definition
names a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the five senses.
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Abstract Noun
Definition
names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic.
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Collective Noun
Definition
names a group of people, animals, or things.
Term
Pronoun
Definition
Takes the place of one or more nouns or pronouns.
Term
Antecedent
Definition
The word or word group that a pronoun stands for.
Term
Personal Pronoun
Definition
refers to the one(s) speaking (first person), the one(s) spoken to (second person), or the one(s) spoken about (third person)
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Reflexive Pronoun
Definition
refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or as an object of a preposition.
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Intensive Pronoun
Definition
emphasizes its antecedent and has no grammatical function in the sentence.
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Demonstrative Pronoun
Definition
points out a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
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Interrogative Pronoun
Definition
introduces a question.
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Indefinite Pronoun
Definition
refers to a person, place, thing, or idea that may or may not be specifically named.
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