TYPES OF NOUNS AND PRONOUNS

PRESENTEDBY

SELVIRAVEENDRAN

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

What are they?

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THEY ARE NOUNS.

NOUN

A noun is the name of a person, place or a thing.

Example Women, pen, pencil, hotel, tajmahal.

TYPES OF NOUNS

1.Proper Noun 2.Common Noun 3.Collective noun

4.Material Noun5.Abstract noun

PROPER NOUN

A proper noun is a special name of a particular person, place or thing.Examples:1.Ravi,Sheela,Akbar(persons)2.Delhi,london,Agra(places)3.Sony Tv,Philips Radio,Neem tree(things)Exercise:Kamala is a fine dancer. (find a noun)

COMMON NOUN:A common noun is the general, ordinary name of a person, place or thing.

Example:girl, boy, sister, brother (persons)hospital, country, town (places)water, butter, book, car (things)

Exercise:Point out the common noun* Ram lives in a village.* Somu is my brother.

COLLECTIVE NOUNA collective noun is the name of a group or collection of similar persons.Example:committee, Fleet, a team of cricketers, a group of dancers, a herd of cattle, a flock of birds.Exercise:Pick out the collective nouns from the following sentences:* I saw a bunch of flowers.* We saw a fleet of ships.

MATERIAL NOUN: Material noun is the name of a substance of which things are made.

Example:Iron, Gold, Brass, Marble, Copper, Steel, Cotton, Silver.

Exercise:Find out the material noun from the following 1. Plastic is of much use. 2. Cotton dress is costly now-a-days. 3. Iron is a very useful metal.

ABSTRACT NOUN:An abstract noun is the name of a quality that persons or things have, action they take or state they find themselves in.Example:Darkness, laughter, bravery,youthExercise:Underline the abstract noun in the following:* She was a Queen of beauty.

* We respect honesty.* I was happy in my childhood.

THE NOUN - GENDER1.MASCULINE GENDERA noun that denotes male is said to be of masculine gender.hero, lion, peacock, cock, cock-sparrow, boy, man

2.FEMININE GENDERA noun that denotes female is said to be of feminine gender.heroine, lioness, peahen, hen, hen-sparrow, girl, woman

3.COMMON GENDERA noun that denotes either a male or a female is said to be of common gender.child, cub, chick, chicken, relation, cousin, neighbour, orphan

4.NEUTER GENDERA noun that denotes neither a male or a female is said to be of common gender.pen, book, room, tree, table, ball

THE NOUN - NUMBERTHERE ARE 2 CATEGORIES

SINGULAR PLURAL

girl girlsflower flowers

leaf leaves buffalo buffaloes

man mensister-in-law sisters-in-law

THE NOUN - THE CASE1. NOMINATIVE CASE (e.g) Ram drew a picture.

2. ACCUSATIVE CASE (e.g) Kamala buys an orange. The book is on the table.

3. POSSESSIVE CASE (e.g) This is Ravi's shirt.

PRONOUN:A Pronoun is a word which is used instead of

a noun.

Example:Rajesh went to market. He bought vegetables

there.

NOMINATIVE CASE

1.FIRST PERSON I, we2.SECOND PERSON you, you3.THIRD PERSON he, she, it, they.

FORMS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS

FORMS OF PERSONALPRONOUNS

ACCUSATIVE CASE

FIRST PERSON me, us SECOND PERSON you, you

THIRD PERSON him, her ,it, them

FORMS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS

POSSESSIVE CASE

1. FIRST PERSON Nominative my, our Accusative mine, ours 2.SECOND PERSON Nominative your, your Accusative yours, yours

3.THIRD PERSON Nominative his, her, its, their Accusative his, hers, its, theirs

-self is added to possessive pronouns to form reflexive pronouns.

(e.g) I hurt myself. They did the homework themselves.

myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves,himself, herself, itself, themselves

REFLEXIVE PRONOUN

EMPHATIC PRONOUNCompound personal pronounsmyself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves,himself, herself, itself, themselvesare also called emphatic pronouns when they are used for the purpose of emphasis.

(e.g)

1. I had to do it myself.2. She has to finish herself.

DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN

The pronouns which point out the objects to

which they refer are called

DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS.

(e.g)

this, that, these, those, such

INDEFINITE PRONOUN

The pronouns which refer to persons or things in a general way but do not refer to persons or things in particular are called indefinite pronouns.

(e.g)

one, any, few, some, each, anyone, everyone, everybody

DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS

The pronouns which refer to persons or things one at a time are called distributive pronouns.

(e.g) either, neither, each

1. You can drink either tea or coffee.

2. She can neither see T.v. nor play.

3. Each of us bought the book.

4. Give the chocolates to each.

RELATIVE PRONOUN

who, whom, whose, which, what,that, whatever,whatsoever, whoever, whoso,whosoever, whichever, whomsoever

1. The boy who won the prize is my son.

2. The teacher whom I like most is Mrs.Gengamirtham.

3. I know what you told is true.

4. Whoever finds the purse should hand over to me.

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN

Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions.

WHOWHOM WHOSEWHICHWHAT

1.Whom do you like ?2.Whose pen is this?3.What do you want?

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