Richbaub's Introduction to Middle School Grammar Book 1

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1.3 – Introduction to Nouns & Pronouns Armed with a sound knowledge of nouns and pronouns, you will be more skilled at telling where a prepositional phrase ends as well as better able to identify subjects in a sentence, which is something coming up in Chapter 5. Advanced writing concepts are also linked to an understanding of nouns and pronouns, things like when to use “I” vs. when instead to use “me,” how subject-verb agreement works, and how using concrete nouns can improve the detail and imagery in your writing. In addition, all prepositional phrases end with either a noun or a pronoun, so this is an excellent time to review nouns and pronouns. Noun Basics A. A noun is the most basic part of speech in the universe. Nouns are the words we use for the people, places, things, and ideas all around us, words like boat, freedom, Africa, fork, grass, pencil, etc. B. The nouns that we always capitalize, like the names of people and countries, are called Proper Nouns. All other nouns are considered Common Nouns. C. The nouns that describe things you experience with one of your five senses (touch, taste, sight, smell, or hearing) are called Concrete Nouns. For example, paper, car, breeze, aroma, flower, and thunder are all concrete nouns. D. Nouns that describe things you cannot experience with one of your five senses, things like liberty, fairness, sin, hope, etc. are called Abstract Nouns. E. And be sure to recognize that nouns can be proper and concrete at the same time, or abstract and common at the same time, etc. "An abstract noun," the teacher said, "is something you can think of, but you can't touch it. Can you give me an example of one?" "Sure," a teenage boy replied, "my father's new car." RICHBAUB’S INTRODUCTION TO MIDDLE SCHOOL GRAMMAR, BOOK 1 17
Exercise 4 Part 1: Using prepositions that begin with the given letters, write prepositional phrases that have… proper nouns for objects of the preposition (o.p.’s) u i b 1. ________________________________ 2. ________________________________ 3. ________________________________ common nouns for o.p.’s a o n 4. ________________________________ 5. ________________________________ 6. ________________________________ concrete nouns for o.p.’s i o f 7. ________________________________ 8. ________________________________ 9. ________________________________ abstract nouns for o.p.’s w d t 10. ________________________________ 11. ________________________________ 12. ________________________________ Part 2: Surround prepositional phrases with parentheses. One sentence does not have any prepositional phrases. 13. In Oregon it can be quite rainy along the coast. 14. Everyone from the city and suburbs should vacation in the countryside during the summer months. 15. I have never seen a wild boar outside. 16. Johnson ran over the hill near the grocery store on his way to school. 18 RICHBAUB’S INTRODUCTION TO MIDDLE SCHOOL GRAMMAR, BOOK 1
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