Nouns and Pronouns

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Dewi Ratna
Dewinta A
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Fatimah Wanda
Indah sari
Ivan Hartanto
Mukhamad muqtafin
Introduction
Critique the use of nouns and pronouns
Nouns and pronouns are the “things” in our sentences—the things that complete actions (or have things done to them).
They are the most common words used in English.
NOUN! 01 Use the correct singular or plural
noun

Nouns are words that refer to

specific things or people: for
example, phones, umbrellas
02 Distinguish countable and
uncountable nouns

03 Recognize irregular singular and

plural nouns
Nouns
The noun is the subject of the sentence. It is the person, item, place, feeling or thing in a
sentence. For example: the dog / a person / an egg / the atmosphere / a house / an
opening.
A proper noun is the name of something, your own name for example, or the name of a city,
a film or a day of the week.
Nouns can also be material items, such as a pencil, a cloud or a tractor. Nouns can be
places, such as London or the train station. Nouns can also be people or animals, such as
John or a cat.
Abstract nouns
Nouns can also be feelings or emotions, such as happiness or satisfaction. Nouns can be
personal qualities too, such as humour.
These nouns that describe emotions, qualities or states of being are called abstract nouns
Articles
An article is the word preceding the noun, telling us if we know the specific noun or if the
noun is a general noun.
For example: ‘Lucy is the woman who works at the shop, but there is a man that works
there too’. The implication here is that the speaker does not know the man.
‘A’ is the indefinite article in a sentence (not referring to a specific noun, e.g. ‘a dog’) ‘A’
becomes ‘An’ when the noun begins with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u)
‘The’ is the definite article of a sentence (referring to a specific noun, e.g. ‘the dog’)
Countable and Uncountable nouns
Countable nouns refer to those nouns which we can count, for example: books, desks,
pens, litres, dogs, cars and people
Countable nouns can be singular or plural, for example: ‘a dog’, ‘the dogs’.
Singular countable nouns must use either a definite article (‘the’), an indefinite article
(‘a’ or ‘an’) or an adjective pronoun (‘my’, ‘your’, ‘his’, ‘our’ etc.) in front of them in a
sentence.
Plural countable nouns can omit an article or adjective pronoun, for example: ‘I like
cakes, ‘He repairs cars at the garage’, ‘They take pens to school’.
Words denoting quantity can be used with countable nouns. For example: ‘a few’,
‘many’, ‘lots of’, ‘not many’. (E.g. ‘We read lots of books’)
ncountable nouns refer to those nouns which cannot count, for example, water, happiness
jealousy, news, money, sugar, electricity, trust, time, music, peace.
Uncountable nouns take a singular verb.
Indefinite articles are not used with uncountable nouns. Instead we can use the wor
‘of’, for example: ‘a pound of sugar’, ‘a bottle of water’, a ‘piece of music‘.
We can also use the words ‘some’, ‘any’.
 1. Use the Correct
Singular or Plural Noun

❑ On the table there were many dish*.

❑ The lab assistant finished every tests*. *It should be dishes and test

2. Distinguish Countable & Uncountable Noun

❑ He has seen much* foreign films.
❑ He didn’t have many* fun at the movies.
*It should be many foreign films and much fun
3. Recognize Irregular Plurals of Nouns
❑ Different criteria was* used to evaluate the performers.
*The verb should be the plural form were used
Reflexive Pronouns
Reflexive pronouns are: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves,
themselves. Reflexive pronouns are rarely used in English.
One occasion where reflexive pronouns are used in English is for emphasis. For
example, ‘I made the dinner myself’, ‘I need you to read the book yourself’, ‘He
bought the car himself‘.
You could also add more emphasis by adding ‘all by’, for example: ‘The boy
painted the picture all by himself, (without the help of anyone else)’.
Other times when reflexive pronouns are used are when the pronoun is the object
of a preposition referring to a subject. For example: ‘She enjoyed going on holiday
by herself’, ‘He bought a new jumper for himself’.
1. Most farmers in my village have some ... to help their work.
a. Ox c. Oxens
b. Oxs d. Oxen
Jawaban : D. Oxen
Pembahasan : Some + benda jamak, bentuk jamak dari ox adalah oxen.
2. As (a) the new furnitures (b) arrived, the neighbors gathered (c) and started to whisper to
each other (d).
Jawaban : B. Furnitures
Pembahasan : Furniture merupakana uncountable noun maka tidak boleh ditambah s/es
dan tidak boleh diawali article a/an/dll jadi seharusnya furniture.
PRONOUNS! 01 Distinguish subject and object
pronouns

Pronouns, on the other hand, stand in for a

previous noun: the same word can refer to
several different things. They include words like
those, them, and he 02 Distinguish possessive adjectives
and pronouns

03 Check pronoun reference for

agreement
1. Distinguish Subject and
Object Pronouns
❑ Sally gave the book to John. or She gave it to him.
❑ Him* and the girl are going shopping. → *It should be he
❑ The gift was intended for you and I*. → *It should be me
2. Distinguish Possesive
Adjectives and Pronouns
❑ Each morning they read theirs* newspaper → *It should be their
❑ Could you give me your*. → *It should be yours
3. Check Pronoun Reference
for Agreement
❑ The boys will cause trouble if you let him*. → *It should be them
❑ Everyone must give their* name. → *It should be his/her
1. She would like to live in Indonesia, ______ it never snows.
A. when
B. where (V)
C. that
D. which
Jawaban : B
Keyword : Indonesia
Pembahasan : Karena Indonesia adalah nama tempat, kata untuk menggantikan
tempat adalah where.
2. The man is an engineer. His wife had a birthday party yesterday
A. The wife who is an engineer had a birthday party yesterday
B. The wife who had a birthday party yesterday is an engineer
C. The man whose wife had a birthday party yesterday is an engineer
D. The man whose wife is an engineer had a birthday party yesterday .
Jawaban : C
Keyword : His wife
Pembahasan : Kata ganti kepunyaan adalah whose. Jadi pilihan yang tepat adalah
The man whose wife had a birthday party yesterday is an engineer.