Class 4 English: Nouns and Pronouns Olympiad Questions

What are nouns and pronouns? And how can one define the different types of nouns? The noun is a name of a place, person, animal, emotion, or thing. And pronoun is the one that one can use in the place of a noun.

Noun:

'Noun' is a word that can include touchable and non- touchable things.

Touchable things:

• The things we can see and touch with our hands are known as 'touchable things.'
• LIKE: person, animal, place, etc.

Untouchable things:

• The things which are not able to see or touch. Only we can feel them, which are the 'untouchable things.'
• LIKE: emotions.

Types of nouns:

1. Proper Noun: Ravi, Jaipur, The Taj Mahal.
2. Common Noun: Girl, Boy, City, Building.
3. Collective Noun: Army, Crowd, Jury, Fleet.
4. Material Noun: Iron, Cotton, Wool.
5. Abstract Noun: Honesty, Wisdom, Beauty, Poverty.

Pronoun:

The word used in the place of noun is called ‘pronoun’

Types of nouns:

1. Personal Pronoun: I, He, She, They, You, We, & It.
2. Possessive Pronoun: My-mine, your-yours, them-theirs, & our-ours.
3. Reflexive Pronoun: Myself, Yourself, Ourself, Himself, Herself, & itself.
4. Demonstrative Pronoun: This, That, These, Those, One & Ones.
5. Relative Pronoun: Who, Which, What, Whose, Whom, & What.