English one

Throughout the course of English One, I have learned many of the English language components. Without learning how to properly use the English language a person may not be able to proper in life as they would like. A person must be grammatically correct when talking, using the English language to write a paper, or even using it to complete a job application or resume. Many of the topics we covered I was familiar with, but was unsure of how to properly use them. Some of the topics that I have learned included Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections.

The first topic we covered was nouns. A noun is defined as a word that names a person, place, a thing, or an idea. There are two major types of nouns; Common Nouns and Proper Nouns. A common noun is the general name for something such as dish, brother, and river. A proper noun is the specific name for a particular person, place, thing, or an idea such as Lassie, Brother John, Mississippi River, and Islam. Most Nouns can be singular or plural. Woman is an example of a singular common noun, while women is a plural common noun. A proper noun would be Sandra Day O’Connor.

There also three other types of nouns; Collective Nouns, Compound Nouns, Concrete Nouns and Abstract Nouns. A collective noun name a group. A few examples of collective nouns are navy, family, and team. A compound noun is made up of more than one word. Some compound nouns like drugstore, and doghouse are written as one word. Others, like disc jockey, Staten Island, and living room are written as two separate words. Still other compound nouns like brother-in-law and forget-me-not are hyphenated. A concrete noun names an object that occupies space or can be recognized by the senses. Tree, drum, and lightning are concrete nouns. An abstract noun names an idea, a quality, or a characteristic. Loyalty, elegance, and size are abstract nouns.

The next topic that was covered was Pronouns. We talked about eight types of pronouns. There are personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, reflexive pronouns, intensive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, relative pronouns, and indefinite pronouns. A pronoun is defined as a word that takes the place of a noun, a group of nouns, or another pronoun. A personal pronoun refers to a specific person or thing; such as I gave it to them. There are also singular and plural personal pronouns. A few examples of singular personal pronouns would be I, me, you, he, him, she, her, and it. Some examples of plural personal pronouns would be we, us, you, they, and them. A possessive pronoun takes the place of the possessive form of a noun; such as My old room is now hers. There can be singular and plural possessive pronouns. Some examples of singular possessive pronouns are my, mine, you, yours, his, her, hers, and its. Some examples of plural possessive pronouns are our, ours, you, yours, their, and theirs. A reflexive pronoun refers to a noun or another pronoun and indicates that the same person or thing is involved such as; We did it for ourselves. Some examples of singular reflexive pronouns would be myself, yourself, himself, herself, and itself. Examples of plural reflexive pronouns are ourselves, yourselves, and themselves. An intensive pronoun adds emphasis to another noun or pronoun such as; He himself admitted it.

Demonstrative pronouns points out specific persons, places, things, or ideas. The demonstrative pronouns are this, that, these, and those. The word these in the sentence: These are facts from American History; is an example of a demonstrative pronoun in use. An interrogative pronoun is used to form questions. The interrogative pronouns are who, whose, whom, which and what. The word whose in the sentence: Whose was the presidency following Zachary Taylor’s?; is an example of an interrogative pronoun in use. A relative pronoun is used to begin a special subject-verb word goup called a subordinate clause. The relative pronouns are who, whom, whose, which, and that. All the relative pronouns except that can also be used as interrogative. The word which in the sentence: Watergate was the event which created scandal during the Nixon administration. An indefinite pronoun refers to persons, places, or