English Grammer Review

Noun Types

Noun Types

Different categories of nouns, including persons, places, things, ideas, animals.

Common Noun Examples

Examples of common nouns, such as scientists, women, city.

Proper Noun Examples

Examples of proper nouns, such as Mary, John, Jamal.

Concrete Nouns

Nouns that can be perceived by one or more senses, like poison, silk, fire.

Abstract Nouns

Nouns that represent ideas, feelings, or qualities, like freedom, kindness, Buddhism.

Compound Nouns

Nouns that consist of multiple words, like firefighter, prime minister, sister-in-law.

Collective Noun

A noun that names a group, like audience.

Pronoun

A word used in place of a noun, like he, she.

Reflexive Pronoun

A pronoun that refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or object of a preposition, like myself, yourself, ourselves.

Intensive Pronoun

A pronoun that emphasizes the sentence without having a grammatical function, like Albert himself wanted to enter the function.

Demonstrative Pronoun

A pronoun that points to or out something, like that is my mom.

Interrogative Pronoun

A pronoun that introduces a question, like who, whom, which, what, whose.

Relative Pronoun

A pronoun that introduces a subordinate clause, like Isabel is my friend who is training for the Boston marathon.

Adjective

A word that modifies and describes a noun, like the gray shirt.

Demonstrative Adjective

An adjective that is followed by the object, like I like that shirt.

Articles

The words "a," "an," and "the" used to specify a noun.

Main Verb

The main word that represents an action or state of being, like is leaving.

Helping Verb

A verb that supports the main verb, like is leaving.

Linking Verb

A word that connects the subject to a word or group of words that describes the subject, like are, was, were, has been.

Transitive Verbs

Verbs that express an action directed towards a person, place, or thing, like DeMarcus mailed the package.

Intransitive Verbs

Verbs that express action or tell something about the subject without the action passing to a receiver or object, like the children ate quickly.

Adverb

A word that describes a verb, like please step up, may we go tomorrow.

Preposition

A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word, like near, behind, from.

Conjunction

A word that joins a group of words and another group of words together.

Interjection

A word that expresses emotion, like ow!, uh-oh, boy-oh-boy.