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Both nouns and pronouns are words for people or things.

Both nouns and pronouns can be singular or plural.

Both nouns and pronouns can be gender specific, common gender, or neuter.

Both nouns and pronouns will function as the subject of a sentence or a clause, and as the object of a verb or a preposition.

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What modifies nouns or pronouns are called a what?

Words that modify nouns or pronouns are called adjectives. Adjectives are used to provide more information about the qualities or characteristics of the nouns or pronouns they describe.


Can adverbs modify nouns and pronouns?

Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, but they do not modify nouns. Adjectives modify nouns.


Which words usually come after prepositions?

Nouns, pronouns, and gerunds usually come after prepositions in a sentence.


Possessive nouns and possessive pronouns always function as what part of speech?

Possessive nouns and possessive pronouns functions as adjectives which are used to describe a noun.


What kinds of pronouns and nouns are there?

The kinds of pronouns are:personal pronouns; I, you, we, he, she, it, me, us, him, her, they, them.demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those.possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.possessive adjectives: my, your, our, his, her, their, its.interrogative pronouns: who, whom, what, which, whose.reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.reciprocal pronouns: each other, one another.relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, that.indefinite pronouns: all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either, enough, everybody, everyone, everything, few, fewer, less, little, many, more, most, much, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, none, one, other, others, several, some, somebody, someone, something, such, and they (people in general).The kinds of nouns are:singular and plural nouns: banana and bananascommon and proper nouns: country and Brazilabstract and concrete nouns: hope and hamburgerpossessive nouns: Lincoln's hatcollective nouns: an army of antscompound nouns: paint brush, six-pack, bathtubcount and non-count (mass) nouns: apples and oxygengerunds (verbal nouns): singing and dancingmaterial nouns: steel and concrete

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What part of speech are subjects?

Nouns or pronouns.


What modifies nouns or pronouns are called a what?

Words that modify nouns or pronouns are called adjectives. Adjectives are used to provide more information about the qualities or characteristics of the nouns or pronouns they describe.


Several kinds of nouns?

proper nouns, common nouns and pronouns


Are he or she proper nouns?

no. they are pronouns.


When writing you use verbs and nouns?

Verbs and nouns (or pronouns) are the basis of a sentence. Nouns (or pronouns), the subject of a sentence and a verb form a sentence or a clause.


Can adverbs modify nouns and pronouns?

Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, but they do not modify nouns. Adjectives modify nouns.


Example of sexiest nouns and pronouns?

The sexiest pronouns are 'you' and 'me, 'ourselves'. The sexiest nouns would depend on the opinion of the people involved.


Which words usually come after prepositions?

Nouns, pronouns, and gerunds usually come after prepositions in a sentence.


What are the common nouns and pronouns?

Nouns: person building country Jack White House Belgium Pronouns: He She It They Them Me Her His My Ze Zir


What two questions do nouns and pronouns answer?

Who and what


Possessive nouns and possessive pronouns always function as what part of speech?

Possessive nouns and possessive pronouns functions as adjectives which are used to describe a noun.


What are the nouns and pronouns in the sentence the tree grew very tall in the field behind the barn?

The nouns are tree, field and barn. There are no pronouns.