Nouns and Pronouns

 

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Today we continue with our chapter, Nouns and Pronouns.

This particular lesson is for beginners and intermediate learners of English.

This chapter will become progressively more difficult, so we want to start with the basic building blocks.

We begin with written activities.  You can print out the exercises below and complete them.

After you complete the activities and when you are ready to check your answers, go to our "Answer Key" shelf located in "Our Library".

Begin this unit by going to our Introduction to Nouns and Pronouns, which you will find in our Library.  You can locate the lesson One, Two, Three Little Countable Nouns. You may want to review that lesson before you begin today with the exercises.  In that lesson,  we answer the questions: What are nouns? What are pronouns?

 

Warnup

 

Warm-up 1

Find each noun and pronoun in the correct sentences below. Beneath each noun, write N and beneath each pronoun write P. If the noun is singular, write S and if it is plural, write #.

Example: We listen to music because it expresses emotions that we can’t express in words.
               P,#                N,S               P,S                    N,#           P,#                           N,#


1. My friends and I used to go out at night. We were not afraid.

2. My relatives speak English when they visit us.

3. Many 12- and 13-year old American children have small jobs and earn spending money.

4. Everybody has to find his own answer to the question, “Is there justice in the world?"

Click here to check your answers to the warmup.

Next...  Countable Nouns,  continued

 

Now we will continue with our unit on Countable Nouns.


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