{"id":1023,"date":"2020-01-17T17:39:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/coreqenglish1\/chapter\/outcome-nouns-and-pronouns\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:20:35","slug":"outcome-nouns-and-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/chapter\/outcome-nouns-and-pronouns\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Nouns and Pronouns","rendered":"Introduction to Nouns and Pronouns"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: understand the use of nouns and pronouns<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-1329 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/07\/28202530\/noun_544053_cc-e1469737559752.png\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"200\" height=\"193\" \/>Nouns and pronouns are the \u201cthings\u201d in our sentences\u2014the things that complete actions (or have things done to them). They are the most common words used in English. Nouns are words that refer to specific things or people: for example, phones, umbrellas, or Olivia Rodrigo.\r\n\r\nPronouns, on the other hand, stand in for a previous noun: the same word can refer to several different things. They include words like\u00a0<em>those<\/em>, <em>them<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>he<\/em>. Without the\u00a0right\u00a0context, it's impossible to tell\u00a0just what (or whom) a pronoun is referring to, but when we use pronouns correctly, they can help us save time and space in our communication.\r\n\r\nIn this section, we\u2019ll learn about the different types of nouns and pronouns in English and how to use them correctly.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: understand the use of nouns and pronouns<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1329 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/07\/28202530\/noun_544053_cc-e1469737559752.png\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"200\" height=\"193\" \/>Nouns and pronouns are the \u201cthings\u201d in our sentences\u2014the things that complete actions (or have things done to them). They are the most common words used in English. Nouns are words that refer to specific things or people: for example, phones, umbrellas, or Olivia Rodrigo.<\/p>\n<p>Pronouns, on the other hand, stand in for a previous noun: the same word can refer to several different things. They include words like\u00a0<em>those<\/em>, <em>them<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>he<\/em>. Without the\u00a0right\u00a0context, it&#8217;s impossible to tell\u00a0just what (or whom) a pronoun is referring to, but when we use pronouns correctly, they can help us save time and space in our communication.<\/p>\n<p>In this section, we\u2019ll learn about the different types of nouns and pronouns in English and how to use them correctly.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1023\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Outcome: Nouns and Pronouns. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Lost And Found. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: icon 54. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/search\/?q=things&#038;i=544053\">https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/search\/?q=things&#038;i=544053<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Nouns and Pronouns\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Lost And Found\",\"author\":\"icon 54\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/search\/?q=things&i=544053\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"167489ca-d9ba-43ae-9b15-5f6206314e8b","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1023","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1021,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1023\/revisions\/6523"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1021"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1023\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}