This presentation gives you a clear view about nouns and some extended ideas related to pronouns.

1. TYPES OF NOUNS
AND PRONOUNS

2. PRESENTED
BY
SELVIRAVEENDRAN

3. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

4. What are they?
CHILD HOUSE ROSE
THEY ARE NOUNS.

5. NOUN
A noun is the name of a person,
place or a thing.
Example
Women, pen, pencil, hotel, tajmahal.

6. TYPES OF NOUNS
1.Proper Noun
2.Common Noun
3.Collective noun
4.Material Noun
5.Abstract noun

7. 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)

8. 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.

9. COLLECTIVE NOUN
A 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.

10. 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.

11. 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,youth
Exercise:
Underline the abstract noun in the
following:
* She was a Queen of beauty.
* We respect honesty.

12. THE NOUN - GENDER
1.MASCULINE GENDER
A noun that denotes male is said to be of masculine gender.
hero, lion, peacock, cock, cock-sparrow, boy, man
2.FEMININE GENDER
A noun that denotes female is said to be of feminine gender.
heroine, lioness, peahen, hen, hen-sparrow, girl, woman
3.COMMON GENDER
A 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 GENDER
A noun that denotes neither a male or a female is said to be of
common gender.
pen, book, room, tree, table, ball

13. THE NOUN - NUMBER
THERE ARE 2 CATEGORIES
SINGULAR PLURAL
girl girls
flower flowers
leaf leaves
buffalo buffaloes
man men
sister-in-law sisters-in-law

14. THE NOUN - THE CASE
1. 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.

15. PRONOUN:
A Pronoun is a word which is used instead of
a noun.
Example:
Rajesh went to market. He bought vegetables
there.

16. NOMINATIVE CASE
1.FIRST PERSON
I, we
2.SECOND PERSON
you, you
3.THIRD PERSON
he, she, it, they.
FORMS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS

17. FORMS OF PERSONALPRONOUNS
ACCUSATIVE CASE
FIRST PERSON
me, us
SECOND PERSON
you, you
THIRD PERSON
him, her ,it, them

18. 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

19. -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

20. EMPHATIC PRONOUN
Compound personal pronouns
myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves,himself,
herself, itself, themselves
are 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.

21. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN
The pronouns which point out the objects to
which they refer are called
DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS.
(e.g)
this, that, these, those, such

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN
Interrogative pronouns are used to ask
questions.
WHO
WHOM
WHOSE
WHICH
WHAT
1.Whom do you like ?
2.Whose pen is this?
3.What do you want?

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