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Like nouns, pronouns may be used either as subjects or as objects in a sentence.Įxample: She planned to ask him for an interview. In the sentence above, she is the pronoun. The abstract concepts of integrity and love in the sentences above are both nouns.Įxample 1: She visited Chicago every year.Ĭhicago, Thanksgiving, and November are all proper nouns, and they should be capitalized.Ī pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence. In the sentence above, there are two nouns, dog and ball.Ī noun may be concrete (something you can touch, see, etc.), like the nouns in the example above, or a noun may be abstract, as in the sentences below. In a sentence, nouns answer the questions who and what. You must not make more than one copy without our permission.A noun is a word that denotes a person, place, or thing. You can save one copy of the guide to disk, and print one copy out for your personal use. Plain English Campaign owns the copyright to this guide. (We can identify which car, but are referring to any hill.)

The car would struggle to get up a hill.(We do not need a specific ruler, any will do.) It is used to refer to something in general. There are two kinds of article: definite and indefinite. I closed the door but I didn't lock it because I thought she was still inside.Prepositions come before nouns or pronouns and usually show a connection.Ĭonjunctions link words, sentences or parts of a sentence together.

They include words such as I, you, he, we, hers, they, it. Pronouns are usually small words which stand in place of a noun, often to avoid repeating the noun. Abstract nouns (names of things we can't see or touch) - love, hope, fear, decision, povertyĪdverbs give us extra information about how, where or when a verb happens.Proper nouns (the names of people, places and so on) - London, Anne, Plain English Campaign.Collective nouns (names of a group of something) - a herd of cows, a flock of sheep.Common nouns - dog, computer, river, biscuit.Nouns are the names of people, places, things and ideas. The following are called parts of speech and they each have their own function.

When you're talking about grammar, it's useful to know some basic terms. The rules of grammar help us decide the order we put words in and which form of a word to use. Grammar is the system and structure of a language.