Singular and Plural Pronouns

A singular pronoun replaces a singular noun or a singular pronoun. A plural pronoun replaces a plural noun or plural pronoun. Take note that pronouns can either be singular or plural.

Types of Pronouns

1) Personal Pronoun – represents people or things. There are two kinds of personal pronoun: subjective and objective. Subjective pronoun is a pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence; while objective pronouns is a pronouns that is used as the object of the sentence. Personal pronouns are: I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they, me, you, him, her, us, them.

Pronoun

A pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun or another pronoun. The word or phrase replaced by a pronoun is called antecedent.

Examples:
George planned George’s travel itinerary.
George planned his travel itinerary.

Counters of Mass Nouns

Counters can be used for mass nouns to be countable.

Possessive Case of Nouns

The possessive case of a noun is used to show ownership or possession. Forming the possessive case of a noun can be done by adding an apostrophe and/or letter s depending on the rule where it falls.

Masculine and Feminine Nouns

Masculine gender refers to a male person or animal. Feminine gender refers to a female person or animal.

Gender of Nouns

1) Masculine gender refers to a male person or animal.

Examples:
father, king, tailor, groom, rooster, stallion

Plural Form of Nouns Ending in S, Ss, Ch, Sh, X or Z

Nouns ending in s, ss, ch, sh, x or z form their plural by adding es.

Plural Form of Most Nouns by Adding S

Most nouns form their plural by adding s.

Singular and Plural Nouns

A noun that refers to one person, place, thing, event or idea is a singular noun. A noun that refers to more than one is a plural noun. Nouns can be countable of non-countable. Non-countable nouns are also known as mass nouns which are not usually counted and have no plural forms. Count nouns can be counted and form their plural in different ways.

Collective Nouns

Collective noun is a type of noun that denotes a name of a particular group of persons or things. Below are some examples of individual members of a group with their corresponding collective noun.

Mass Nouns

Mass Noun is a type of noun that denotes a name of anything that cannot be counted.

Abstract Nouns

Abstract noun is a type of noun that denotes a name, idea or quality having no physical form. It can be seen by our mind but not of our naked eyes.

Common and Proper Nouns

Common noun is a type of noun that denotes a general name for a person, place, thing or event and begins with a small letter. On the other hand, proper noun is a name of a particular common noun and begins with a capital letter. A list of examples is provided below to better understand the difference between proper and common nouns.

Types of Nouns

A noun can belong to more than one type of noun: proper or common, abstract or concrete, and countable (count noun) or non-countable (mass noun) or collective.

1) Proper Noun – is a name of a particular person, place, thing or event. It begins with a capital letter.

Noun

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

Examples:
Persons – girl, boy, baby, president, John Smith
Places – park, mall, office, Asia, America
Things – laptop, pencil, plants, fan, mirror
Events – graduation, birthday, anniversary, Labor Day, Independence Day
Ideas – honesty, liberty, wisdom, perseverance, integrity