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English–I

Notes Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false :
5. ‘He’ is an objective pronoun.
6. Interrogative pronoun used to ask questions.
7. Whomever is an Interrogative pronoun.

8. Myself is a Reflexive pronoun.

3.8 Summary

• A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea.

• A common noun is a noun referring to a person, place, or thing in a general sense—
usually, you should write it with a capital letter only when it begins a sentence.

• A concrete noun is a noun which names anything (or anyone) that you can perceive
through your physical senses: touch, sight, taste, hearing, or smell.
• A countable noun (or count noun) is a noun with both a singular and a plural form, and
it names anything (or anyone) that you can count.
• A collective noun is a noun naming a group of things, animals, or persons.

• A personal pronoun refers to a specific person or thing and changes its form to
indicate person, number, gender, and case.
• A demonstrative pronoun points to and identifies a noun or a pronoun.
• An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun referring to an identifiable but not specified person
or thing. An indefinite pronoun conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some.

3.9 Keywords

Noun : It is name of person, place or things.

Interrogative Pronoun : used to ask questions.
Intensive Pronoun : used to emphasise its antecedent.

3.10 Review Questions

1. Define parts of speech and hence noun and pronoun.
2. What is common noun? Write 10 common nouns.
3. Differentiate personal pronoun and demonstrative pronoun.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. eight 2. common
3. engineer 4. collective
5. false 6. true

7. false 8. true.

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