Nouns & Pronouns
NOUNS "name"
Nouns are the building blocks of language and learning enough of them is the greatest challenge.
Other challenges with nouns are Irregular Plurality,
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the spelling of Compound Nouns,
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Count and Mass nouns - see Prepositions & Determiners,
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Using Noun Clauses and Phrases - see Punctuation & Sentence Structure,
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and at higher levels lexical nominalization - see
NYM & NOMEN
A Substantial Number of Meta-linguistic terms contain this root. But it can mean “sense” or “meaning”
as well as “name” or ‘spelling.’
PRONOUNS "in place of noun"
Pronouns replace nouns and noun phrases that then become the antecedent. In formal writing, the antecedent should always be easy to find and should always be in the same paragraph.
antecedent
e.g. “My friend Tom is always home when he is not working.”
pronoun
Subject:
I, you, he, she, it, we, they
Object:
me, you, him, her, it, us, them
Possessive pronoun:
mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs
*Possessive Adjective:
my, your, his, her, its, our, their
Indefinite:
many, all, any, everyone, someone, no one, anyone
Reflexive:
myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself
ourselves, yourselves, themselves
Reciprocal:
each other, one another
Interrogative or Relative:
who, which, what, where, when, why, how
*Demonstrative:
this, that, these, those
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*These are only pronouns when they replace a noun.
Otherwise, they are adjectives.
I gave him those.
I gave him those toys.
Those are (yours/Tom’s).
These are (your/Tom’s) toys.
You all
