Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.
1) SSR and log
2) Review of NOUNS and PRONOUNS: Active notetaking for a grade.
PARTS OF SPEECH
NOUN: A NOUN is a word that NAMES a person, place, thing, or idea.
Classifications: common, proper; concrete, abstract; compound, collective.
Example: girl, Betty, chair, happiness birthright band
PRONOUN: A PRONOUN is a word that takes the place of a noun or group of nouns.
Classifications: personal, reflective, intensive, relative, interrogative, demonstrative, or indefinite.
Personal Pronouns: Refers to the one speaking (first person), the one spoken to (second person), or the one spoken about (third person). [These are the "gossip" pronouns :)
I, me he, him it they, them
You she, her we, us
Possessive Pronouns These are personal pronouns that show ownership:
my, mine, our ours; your, yours his, her, hers, its, their, theirs
Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns.
Myself, ourselves (first person)
Yourself, yourselves (second person)
Himself, herself, itself, themselves (third person)
Reflexive pronouns refer to the subject of the sentence and function as a complement or as the object of a preposition. Ex.
I am not myself today. (myself is the predicate nominative identifying I)
Cecilia let herself in through a trap door. (Herself is the direct object of let)
The boys chose costumes for themselves. (themselves is the object of the prep. For)
Intensive pronouns add “intensity” and have no grammatical function in the sentence. (The sentence can do fine without them.)
Ray painted the mural himself.
The children dyed the eggs themselves.
Demonstrative pronouns. Used to point out persons or things. (Think of a pointing finger)
this, these that, those
Relative Pronouns: Introduce subordinate clauses.
Who, whom, which, that, whose
Interrogative Pronouns: Are used in questions.
Who? To Whom? For whom?, Which? Whose? What?
Indefinite Pronouns: Refer to a person, place, thing, or idea that may or may not be specifically named.
all everybody no one
another everyone one
any few other
anybody many several
anyone most some
both neither somebody
each nobody someone
either none such
something
