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Kinds of Pronouns: Reflexive & Intensive Pronouns

2011-11-27T23:45:00.001+08:00

are pronouns having the same form but different in usage.

Reflexive pronouns acts as 'direct object' of the verb or 'object of the preposition' in a sentence if the receiver of the action is the subject itself. It merely reflects the subject.

Intensive pronoun emphasizes the subject. It requires to be beside an antecedent or the noun it intensifies. In short, it intensifies the subject of the sentence.

Let us study this chart to see the difference between the two.
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Kinds of Pronouns: Interrogative Pronoun

2011-05-03T23:29:00.002+08:00

I'll ask you one last time. Who is Sponge Bob??

Interrogative Pronoun

is a pronoun that introduces a question.

These interrogative pronouns are who, whom, which and what. The additional set of these Interrogative pronouns are there compound forms with suffix 'ever;' whoever, whomever, whichever and whatever.

These words become Interrogative pronouns more as a function than a separate category as they may also be used in other Kinds of Pronouns.

In this regard, let us concentrate in learning how these words are used as Interrogative pronoun.

Let us study this chart to see how each word are used in a sentence.

Kinds of Pronouns: Demonstrative Pronoun

2011-04-29T23:42:00.003+08:00

Demonstrative Pronoun

is a pronoun that points out an intended referent.

From its name demonstrative or demonstrate which literally means 'to show' or 'to point,' Demonstrative pronouns are used as a pointer an object (or objects), person (or persons), event (or events) you're pertaining to.

These are the most common Demonstrative pronouns: this, these, that and those. The same words may also be used as determiners in a sentence.

A determiner is a word such as the, some, my, etc. that comes before a noun to show how the noun is being used.

Observe this chart to see how this pronouns may be used in both cases.

Kinds of Pronouns: Personal Pronoun

2011-04-26T22:25:00.003+08:00

It's personal!

Personal Pronoun

is a group of words used to replace directly the name of a person thus the name 'personal pronoun.'

Personal pronoun are especially divided into 'persons,''number,''gender' and 'case' to clearly identify the usage of each personal pronoun.

Study the chart below to understand the each personal pronoun.

Pronoun

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Concept and definition of Pronouns

Dictionaries define Pronoun as a word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase, for example he, it, hers, me, them, etc. or any of a small set of words in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns.

In short, Pronouns are substitute for nouns or as its name implies: PRO + NOUN = for name; meaning they are words that are for names; a substitute for names. Recalling our previous lesson, we'll know that nouns are names or words that names.

There are plenty of pronouns to study all at the same time, so we'll divide them into several kinds plus its cases.

These are the kinds of pronouns:

Cases of Nouns: Dative (Indirect Object) Case

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My dog ate MY homework!

Dative (Indirect Object)

is the form of a noun, a pronoun or an adjective when it is the Indirect Object of a verb or is connected with the Indirect Object.
Indirect Object is plainly the receiver of the action. The noun for whom or for which an action is performed.

Study this chart for a clearer understanding:

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Cases of Nouns: Vocative (to call a person or persons) Case

2011-04-13T15:39:00.001+08:00

Vocative (to call a person/s)

is the form of a noun, a pronoun or an adjective used when addressing a person or thing.

Usually found in dialogues.

Observe this chart for a better understanding:

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Cases of Nouns: Objective (Accusative) Case

2011-03-30T21:11:00.001+08:00

Objective (Accusative)

is the category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb.
When we say object, objective case or object of the preposition we are not talking about something tangible or the literal object or thing. We refer to them as one that receives the action.

In short, words that receives the action are in objective case.

We can call it the recipient.

Observe this chart for the position and characteristics of words or group of words in objective case.

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Cases of Nouns: Nominative (Subject) Case

2011-03-29T15:07:00.001+08:00

Nominative (Subject)

is the form of a noun, a pronoun or an adjective when it is the subject of a verb. Marking typically the subject of a verb especially in languages that have relatively full inflection.

A noun, pronoun or an adjective in nominative case is the subject.

The subject is the doer of the action, the one that carries out the action or the one being described.

Take a look at this chart; observe the words that identifies the subject in a sentence.

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Pro Chess

2011-02-19T19:06:00.003+08:00

Gradum Facere
An Open Collaborative Group of Professionals

Chess Clinic

Located at 46 Arambulo St. BFRV Las Pinas, Philippines (Brown Gate)

Enrollment Starts Now!

A FREE INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD ON APRIL 8, 2011. STUDENTS OF ALL LEVELS ARE INVITED! COME AND JOIN NOW!

14 Superb Chess Training Sessions!

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Open for All Levels

What to Expect?

We will be training all level of participants whether you are a beginner who is new to chess, an intermediate who has some skills and wish to sharpen them more, and an advance who still needs some furnishing.

Our training program is flexible so that those who will enroll for beginner may attend intermediate sessions, and those in intermediate may attend in the advance level.

Not only that you will learn the basic moves, techniques, and advance checkmates but you'll also be into a tournament of skills!

When to attend?

~~Tentatively on March 30, their will be an introductory seminar for English plus, concerns with Music Plus workshop may be address during the said event, so join now!~~

We have an exact date already, and the introductory seminar will be at April 8 2011. All workshops will be introduced. We invite everyone to attend so that your concerns will be anwered and you will have one big reason why you should join.

We will start the Chess Clinic on April 9, 2011
Saturdays and Sundays only
From April 9 - May 22, 2011

What other Perks can be gained?

You can avail discounts if siblings will both participate in the workshop. In case both of your children will participate, an honorary 10% discount will be given. You may also get a 5% discount if any participant will join through your referral.

Training Module will be provided for future reference.

What are our terms of agreement?

Children's certificate will be given to their parents upon the end of the workshop.
Once enrolled, all students are obliged to attend all session.
For the whole 14 sessions a fee of only P5500 is charged to a single participant.
You may pay the first half upon enrollment and the second after 3 sessions.

The P5500 payment is a package fee for the whole session.
An amount of P390 will be charge per session in case you may want to attend other sessions.

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2011-02-16T01:16:00.002+08:00

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Music Plus Workshop

2011-02-16T01:09:00.003+08:00

Gradum Facere
An Open Collaborative Group of Professionals

Music Plus Workshop

Located at 46 Arambulo St. BFRV Las Pinas, Philippines (Brown Gate)

Enrollment Starts Now!

A FREE INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD ON APRIL 8, 2011. STUDENTS OF ALL LEVELS ARE INVITED! COME AND JOIN NOW!

2 Weeks of Intensive Guitar Lesson!

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Open for Elementary, Secondary and Tertiary Levels

What to Expect?

Our target participants are beginners with the Guitar instrument.

They will be guided through basic Guitar handling, chord reading, scaling and tuning.

Our goal is for each participants to be able to play with courage simple to mid-level music chords.

It is also imperative that the participant who will join will learn chord scaling and note reading.

When to attend?

~~Tetatively on March 30, their will be an introductory seminar for English plus, concerns with Music Plus workshop may be address during the said event, so join now!~~

We have an exact date already, and the introductory seminar will be at April 8 2011. All workshops will be introduced. We invite everyone to attend so that your concerns will be answered and you will have one big reason why you should join.

What other Perks can be gained?

You can avail discounts if siblings will both participate in the workshop. In case both of your children will participate, an honorary 10% discount will be given. You may also get a 5% discount if any participant will join through your referral.

Supplies needed for the workshop are provided except individual instrument and handouts for future reference will also be given.

What are our terms of agreement?

Children's assessment will be given to their parents upon the end of the workshop.
Once enrolled, all students are obliged to attend all session.
In case a student wishes to have a repeat session, an extension fee will be issued.
For the whole 2 weeks workshop, a fee of only P3500 is charged to a single participant.
You may pay the first half upon enrollment and the second after 3 sessions.

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Achievements

2011-02-02T22:41:00.001+08:00

YOU ARE NUMBER 1

Here are some of my third grade students' commendable works.

Overview:
This is an activity enhancer which the students present in front of the whole class. It is graded accordingly through voice modulation, appropriateness of the material, effectiveness of any visual aid used and creativity in presentation. All students are expected to meet these standards in delivering there activity enhancer.

For this period, we assigned the students to prepare English trivia to present in class.

Here are some students who presented their work outstandingly.

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Cases of Nouns: Possessive (Genitive) Case

2011-02-02T17:42:00.001+08:00

Possessive (Genitive)

is a word of, relating to, or constituting a word, a word group, or a grammatical case that denotes ownership or a relation analogous or similar to ownership.

Possession is simply the state of having or owning something.

A noun is in possessive case if it shows ownership or possession. Nouns or pronouns in possessive case are usually guided by the noun that follows it. Possessive case are marked with an apostrophe and 's' at the end of the word or with the 'of' phrase.

Observe this chart contrasting the apostrophe and 's' and the the 'of' phrase:

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Numbers of Nouns: Plural

2011-02-02T00:24:00.002+08:00

Plural

is a word of, relating to, or constituting a class of grammatical forms usually used to denote more than one or in some languages more than two.

Plural stands for many. If you are referring to several persons thing or events, then use the plural form of the noun. There are several ways in forming the plural form of nouns. Generally you add 's' after the word to form the plural, in other cases you add 'es', and still in others, you would totally change the word.

Here is a chart of the rules you can follow to change a noun to its plural form:

Let us take a look at the difference of singular and plural nouns:

*Take note that there are no rules stating when a word needs to be totaly changed to form its plural, you have to familiarize yourself with that word. In short, the more you read, the more words you encounter, the more you get to familiarize.

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Numbers of Nouns: Singular

2011-01-31T22:41:00.000+08:00

Singular

is word of or relating to a separate person or thing: individual or relating to, or being a word form denoting one person, thing, or instance; or relating to a single instance or to something considered by itself.

Singular stands for one or literally single. If you are referring only to a single or one person, thing or event, you should use the singular form of the noun. The singular form may also be the noun's base form. The base form of a noun is as it is written without inflection or additional affixes.

Look at this chart for a clearer view of the base form of nouns:

*Take note that some forms do not change or rather they may seem plural in form but is actually singular in function. These nouns may take another word for it to be recognize as plural, like for example scissors. You may say a pair of scissors or several scissors to point out many scissors.

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Genders of Nouns: Neuter

2011-01-23T12:00:00.002+08:00

Neuter

are words of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to things classed as neither masculine nor feminine.

The neuter gender indicate words that specify objects or general terminologies. In contrast with masculine and feminine, all words that name objects are all neuter in gender. In addition, not only objects are neuter but also words that points to either male or female, like words for the infant of an animal.

Take a look at this chart to see what I mean:

Let us see now compare all three genders. Take a look at this chart:

*Take note that neuter gender can either be male or female, or can neither be male nor female. If a term or word refers to a general kind, for example a horse, it is considered as a neuter, but when you point out to male horse you should refer to it as a stallion. Above this, all words without gender specification are all neuter.

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Genders of Nouns: Feminine

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Feminine

are those having the qualities or appearance considered to be typical of women; connected with women.

The Feminine gender indicate words that specify the female gender. In contrast with masculine, all words that names the female individual are all feminine in gender.

Observe this chart for a quick grasp:

Looking at the previous chart of the masculine gender, we can now see the different names we call each gender. Observe this chart:

*Take note that feminine are used only for female gender species. Compare masculine with feminine for a more contrasting view. There are many words that separate the two genders but there is also a notion that discriminating words are to be avoided. Words like landlord and landlady, should be addressed as landowner or innkeeper.

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Genders of Nouns: Masculine

2011-01-23T00:20:00.002+08:00

Masculine

are those having the qualities or appearance considered to be typical of men; connected with or like men.

The Masculine gender indicate words that specify the male individual. All words that names the male are all masculine in genders.

Observe this chart for a better understanding:

*Take note that masculine are used only for male gender species. Compare masculine with feminine for a more contrasting view.

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Classification of Nouns: Collective Noun

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Mass (Non-countable) Noun
a word (such as school or flock) that names a group of people or things.

In other words collective nouns are generic group names. It is neither classified as male (masculine) or female (feminine) for it incorporates the two genders. All words that points at a group of a specific kind, may it be people, animal or object, are called collective nouns. In another perspective, you may define collective noun as a 'collection' of people, animals and objects.

For a better grasp of collective nouns, here's a chart of some collective nouns that you might encounter.

*Take note that collective nouns are a collection, while quantifiers counts mass nouns. Do not confuse the terms used as quantifiers and as collective nouns.

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Classification of Nouns: Mass (Non-count) Noun

2011-01-17T00:33:00.000+08:00

Mass(Non-countable) Noun
a noun (such as “sand” or “butter”) that refers to something that cannot be counted. Non-count nouns do not have a plural form and are not used with the indefinite articles a and an.

Just like Count nouns, Mass nouns or as it other name says: Non-countable nouns are words that cannot be counted physically. These words are quantified using another word which are called quantifiers.

Quantifiers, in a manner counts mass nouns. In short, whenever you'd like to count or quantify a Mass noun use quantifier.

Observe this chart for better understanding.

This are some quantifiers that you might encounter:

*Take note that most quantifiers are containers. Usually we count Mass nouns using appropriate containers for them. Also, some quantifiers may refer to objects that are in a pile or are bundled together.

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Classification of Nouns: Countable Noun

2011-01-11T19:20:00.002+08:00

Countable Noun
is a noun (such as bean or ball) that has both a singular and plural form and can be used after a numeral, after words such as many or few, or after the indefinite article a or an.

Basically as what the noun is called-countable which means can be counted. So, all words that can be counted are classified as countable nouns.

To be able to identify these words, there are several things you need to consider. First, the number; Countable nouns should have both singular and plural forms. Second, it should be or is placed after or identified by a numeral. Third, countable nouns may also be found after words such as many and few if its indication is an indefinite quantity (that is more than one), or after the indefinite articles a or an.

Take a look at these examples:

*Take note that there are words which may seem confusing to classify. Example, leaf-leaves. The question that may arise here is that can you even count the leaves on a tree? Obviously no one would waste time counting them, but following the rule of countable nouns, leaf has a plural form which makes it countable. The same principle will apply the the word paper. Paper in a direct manner is non-countable, but if you are pertaining to a document then it becomes countable.

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Classification of Nouns: Abstract Noun

2011-01-06T18:52:00.000+08:00

Abstract Noun

is a noun which names anything which you can not feel through your five physical senses.

This does not mean that abstract nouns are merely 'ghosts' but rather 'concepts' and 'ideas.'
Words like justice, peace, unity, anger, hate build up the category of abstract nouns.
Now, there are still a few arguments on whether 'love' should be placed. Should love be felt by the five senses making it a concrete noun or should it only be a feeling or an idea just like anger and hate making it an abstract noun? You decide, give me your side and tell me a very good reason why.

Now, comparing abstract and concrete nouns, let see this chart below.

Their are so much more that can be added to this list, why not try to add a few of your own?

*Take note that abstract nouns will most likely touch your inner feelings. You may see it this way: concrete nouns are things felt by your body (which is at the outside) and abstract nouns are things felt by your heart (which is inside).

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Classification of Nouns: Concrete Noun

2011-01-06T18:10:00.000+08:00

Concrete Noun
is a noun which names anything (or anyone) that you can feel through your physical senses: touch, sight, taste, hearing, or smell.

The word concrete itself means a stone or an object made out of cement:

Classification of Nouns: Common Noun

2011-01-04T02:49:00.000+08:00

Common Noun

is a word (such as “singer,” “ocean,” or “car”) that refers to a person, place, or thing but that is not the name of a particular person, place, or thing.

It actually is the 'category label' for things. Let say 'car' is the common noun for a Honda civic, and a 'Honda civic' is the proper noun for a car. It's like asking your self what kind of car do I like? A Ferrari or a Porsche?