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What are the principle uses of nouns and pronouns in a sentence?
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A noun is a word for a person, a place, or a thing.
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
The principle functions of a noun or a pronoun is as the subject of a sentence or a clause and as the object of a verb or a preposition.
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Noun subject of a sentence: Aunt Jane made cookies for Jack and Jill.
Noun subject of a clause: The cookies that Aunt Jane made are for Jack and Jill.
Noun object of verb: Aunt Jane made cookies for Jack and Jill.
Noun object of a preposition: Aunt Jane made cookies forJack and Jill.
Pronoun subject of a sentence: She made cookies for Jack and Jill.
Pronoun subject of a clause: The cookies that she made are for Jack and Jill.
Pronoun object of verb: Aunt Jane made them for Jack and Jill.
Pronoun object of a preposition: Aunt Jane made cookies for them.
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What are the principle uses of nouns and pronouns?
A noun is the name of something-- a person, place, thing or idea. Nouns are used for subject and objects of verbs and prepositions. A pronoun substitutes for a noun.Example:The boy fed his dog with a can of dog-food. He gave her all she would eat.boy, dog , can and dog-food are nouns. He, she and her are pronouns.
What are the different types of uses of these two pronouns Me and I?
"Me" is in the objective case and "I" is in the nominative case. A book would be required to enumerate all the possible uses of either form, but these uses are determined by the properties and usages of the case and apply to all nouns and pronouns. The preceding part of the answer is for conventional proper usage, but there are also colloquial uses that do not follow the conventional rules, and these colloquial uses do not always apply to other nouns and pronouns.
What is an example of unconventional uses of capital letters?
Pronouns such as "His" or "Him" when referring to God, Proper Nouns, Titles...
What word are use for third person point of view?
The third person is the one (ones) spoken about. The third person personal pronouns are: he, him, she, her, it, they, them. The third person nouns are all nouns except nouns of direct address.
If the narrator uses the pronoun we or us which pov is it why?
The point of view for the pronouns 'we' or 'us' is that of the speaker.The pronouns 'we' and 'us' are personal pronouns, words that take the place of a noun for specific people or things.The pronouns 'we' and 'us' are plural pronouns, words that take the place of a plural noun or two or more nouns/pronouns.The pronoun 'we' functions as the subject of a sentence or a clause.The pronoun 'us' functions as the object of a verb or a preposition.
Do you want to go to dinner with bev and I?
Identify the sentence that uses pronouns correctly
What are some objective pronouns?
Object pronouns take the place of a noun as the object of a sentence or phrase. Some objective pronouns are me, us, him, her, and them. Some objective pronouns are used for both subject and object, they are youand it.
What is the noun in the sentence your dad uses ladders when he is painting?
The nouns in the sentence are dad and ladders.
What are the uses of pronouns in writing sentences?
Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns in a sentence and perform the same functions as the noun it replaces. A pronoun functions as the subject of a sentence or clause and the object of a verb or a preposition. Examples:Subject of the sentence: We saw that movie.Subject of a clause: The movie that we saw was playing at the Olympic.Object of the verb: John also saw it.Object of a preposition: John went to the movie by himself.
What are the uses of the pronoun in the nominative case?
Pronouns in the nominative case are used as the subject of a sentence or a clause; also called subjective pronouns.
What are the examples of masculine and feminine gender?
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns and pronouns for male or female.Some nouns for a male are father, boy, man, nephew, rooster, ram, stallion.Some pronouns for a male are he, him, his, himself.Some nouns for a female are aunt, daughter, lady, hen, ewe, mare.Some pronouns for a female are she, her, hers, herself.
What type pronoun uses an apostrophe to form the possessive?
The pronouns have possessive forms of their own. They do not use an apostrophe for the possessive, as nouns do.
