{"id":758,"date":"2016-07-15T22:54:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T22:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level3-english\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=758"},"modified":"2017-04-30T19:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:06:31","slug":"outcome-nouns-and-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/chapter\/outcome-nouns-and-pronouns\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Nouns and Pronouns","rendered":"Outcome: Nouns and Pronouns"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Critique the use of nouns and pronouns.<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1329\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/07\/28202530\/noun_544053_cc-e1469737559752.png\" alt=\"a bin with a question mark on it. the bin contains a phone and an umbrella. Bin, Phone, and Umbrella are all examples of nouns.\" 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 Nicki Minaj. 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's impossible to tell\u00a0just what 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 outcome, we\u2019ll learn about the different types of nouns and pronouns, as well as how to correctly use them in English.\r\n<h2>What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Critique the use of nouns<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Critique the use of different pronoun cases and types<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Critique passages for pronoun and antecedent clarity<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Critique passages for pronoun and antecedent agreement<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Critique the use of nouns and pronouns.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1329\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/07\/28202530\/noun_544053_cc-e1469737559752.png\" alt=\"a bin with a question mark on it. the bin contains a phone and an umbrella. Bin, Phone, and Umbrella are all examples of nouns.\" 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 Nicki Minaj. 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 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 outcome, we\u2019ll learn about the different types of nouns and pronouns, as well as how to correctly use them in English.<\/p>\n<h2>What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Critique the use of nouns<\/li>\n<li>Critique the use of different pronoun cases and types<\/li>\n<li>Critique passages for pronoun and antecedent clarity<\/li>\n<li>Critique passages for pronoun and antecedent agreement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-758\">\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":17,"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":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-758","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1849,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/758\/revisions\/1800"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1849"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/758\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-engcomp1-wmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}