A Noun is the name of a person, place or thing. or Name of anything is noun. For example: Sita is a nurse. Ravi lives in Mumbai. The honesty is super policy. In above examples Sita and Ravi are name of persons, Mumbai is name of a place and Honesty is name of thing. So, they are Nouns. Other examples: Pen, Table, Water, Gold, Silver, Kindness, India, Country, State etc.   Classification of Noun: Noun is classified in 5 categories: Proper Noun Common Noun Collective Noun Material Noun Abstract Noun 1. Proper Noun: Name of a particular person, place or […]

Some sentences are given below. Choose the nouns and mention the type of noun whether they are proper noun, common noun, collective noun, material noun or abstract noun. Hide All Answers

Some groups of nouns are given below. Pick out the odd noun in each of the following group of words. Hide All Answers

Definition: Personal Pronoun is a word which is used in place of a person or thing. I, We, You, He, She, It and They are Personal Pronouns. They have others forms also that are used specific to cases(Possessive case , Objective case). Personal mean related to persons. There are three types of persons we talk about in English grammar. First Person – Who is talking (I, My, Mine, Me, We, Our, Ours, US) Second Person – To whom one is talking. (You, Your, Yours) Third Person – About whom two are talking. (He, His, Him, She, Her, Hers, It, Its, […]

In Reflexive Pronoun, action of the verb is reflected on the subject. In a sentence when subject and object of the verb is same person or thing then for object we use Reflexive Pronoun. Personal Pronouns are changed into Reflexive Pronouns by appending –self (for singular) or –selves (For plural). For example: My – Myself Our – Ourselves Your – Yourselves Him – Himself Her – Herself It – Itself Them – Themselves Now see given examples: Ravi ruined himself. Who did the action? Off course Ravi did. Ravi ruined. Now, who was ruined? Off course Ravi was ruined. Means, […]

When Reflexive pronouns are used for sake of emphasis on Nouns or Pronouns then they are called as Emphatic Pronouns. Emphatic Pronouns are used after Nouns or Pronouns to make them stronger. Like Reflexive pronouns, Emphatic Pronoun never becomes object of the Verb. Yes, It can become object of Preposition. We will tell you more about prepositions in next posts. Where Reflexive pronouns are used in sense of “To SELF”, on the other hand, Emphatic Pronouns are used in sense of “BY SELF”. Example of Emphatic Pronouns: He himself wrote the letter. She herself decided not to attend the marriage. […]