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>> Hello, and welcome back. We're going to talk about the first 3
parts of speech, which are nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.
As you might remember, nouns are persons, places, things, living creatures, and
concepts. >> Yeah.
>> Pronouns will rename nouns, so we reduce repetition And adjectives can
modify a noun, or a pronoun. Most every sentence that you write, is
going to contain nouns. >> Yeah.
>> And so let's take a look at an example, because we're also going to be
finding pronouns, and adjectives in many of the sentences you write as well.
>> Yeah, take a look at this sentence. >> Frank Lloyd Wright, his talented
assistant, and I designed the modern building.
Frank Lloyd Wright, assistant, and building are all nouns.
>> Right. >> Talented and modern are adjectives.
His and I are pronouns. Or what about this sentence, "Sozan set
the brass candlestick she bought at a local swap meet on the 3 legged antique
table." Sozan, candlestick, meet, table, are all nouns.
Brass, swap. Local, 3-legged, and antique are all
adjectives, she is a pronoun that renames Sozan.
There's a lot in that sentence that you can see.
So sometimes when you're dealing with a list of nouns, you find that you need to
or want to, or you're invited to add more to it.
So adjectives will enable a chair, to become something like a green, filthy,
overstuffed chair. and also in terms of describing maybe a
film you've seen, you can use the superlative it was a good movie.
Well maybe that was a better movie than the one I saw last night.
Or finally, that was the best movie I've ever seen.
>> Okay, so you can see these adjectives are really adding these
modifiers to your sentences. >> Mm-hm, they do.
>> also you know, nouns and adjectives are probably the first thing you'll see
when you go to observe something. And many of you are, as instructors will
assign an essay where you'll be looking at.
>> Something, the nouns and adjectives come first, but as you modify them you'll
extend your sentences. Now let's talk about pronouns.
Pronouns are those words that are going to take the place of a noun.
And if you're not going to use pronouns your sentences are going to become sort
of comically unwieldly. >> They will, they will.
Listen to this sentence, Matthew took Matthew's coat and threw the coat on
Matthew's bed before Matthew sat down at Matthew's desk to begin Matthew's
homework. >> [LAUGH]
>> If we didn't have pronouns, that's the types of sentences that we would
write, and speak. But fortunately we do have pronouns.
>> So now we can say, Matthew took his coat and threw it on his bed before he
sat down to do his homework. I don't know about the rest of you, but I
love pronouns. >> [LAUGH] Pronouns are awesome.
So now you're going to be working on some questions that'll enable you to test your
knowledge at this point. >> Yep.
>> That's good. >> I know [INAUDIBLE]