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SAT Practice, The New Verbal Section

Nouns, Pronouns, Pronoun Declension

Nouns

Nouns represent person place or thing, including abstractions.  Nelson Mandela, book, compost, humor, confusion, exasperation are nouns.  There are a potentially infinite number of nouns as new ones are being invented all the time.  English nouns are inflected (changed in form or declined) only to show plural and possessive qualities.  "Book" becomes "books" in plural and "book's" would indicate possession as in "the book's jacket."

Only proper nouns, the name of a place or person, are capitalized: Ferdinand, Severus, Rupert, Sir Thomas Crapper, etc.    

Pronouns

Pronouns take the place of nouns.  There are only a few of these and you already know them all.  Who (whom in object case), what, which, that, each, are examples of general pronouns.  Apart from who, whose object form is whom and possessive is whose, only the personal pronouns are declined extensively.  Declension is used to indicate subject, object, or possessive case according to how they are used in the sentence and depending upon the number, person, and gender of the noun represented by the pronoun.  Here is a chart.    

Personal Pronoun Declension

number

person

gender*

Cases of Personal Pronouns

possessive
adjectives

subject

object

possessive

reflexive

singular

1st

m/f

I

me

mine

myself

my

2nd

m/f

you

you

yours

yourself

your

3rd

m

he

him

his

himself

his

f

she

her

hers

herself

her

n

it

it

its

itself

its

plural

1st

m/f

we

us

ours

ourselves

our

2nd

m/f

you

you

yours

yourselves

your

3rd

m/f/n

they

them

theirs

themselves

their

* m=masculine f=feminine n=neuter

For further practice, see Common Errors: troubles with case
  Excerpted with permission from SAT Practice: The New Verbal Section.