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What’re Pronouns? A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun

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What’re Pronouns?A pronoun can replace a noun or

another pronoun

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Why pronouns?To make sentences appear less

awkward and repetitive.

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PersonalPronouns

Subjective

Objective

Possessive

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Subjective Personal Pronouns

Description Example Model sentence

Pronoun acts as subject of the sentence

He ; She ; It

I ; You; We; They

He was the oddest looking child she has ever laid eyes on.

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Description Example Model sentence

Pronoun acts as object of a verb, compound verb, infinitive phrase or preposition

Me; You, Her; Him; It; Us; They

The mugger snatched her purse and sped off towards the opposite direction.

Objective Personal Pronouns

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Possessive Personal Pronouns

Description Example Model sentence

Pronoun acts as marker of possession and defines an ownership of a particular object or person.

Mine; Yours; Hers; Its; Theirs, His; Ours

The fanciest gift is his.

This stack of paper is all yours.

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Who Whom

Whose

Which

That

Relative Pronouns

What’s This?

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What is a Relative Pronoun?

A pronoun used to link a phrase or a clause (sentences) together to from one sentence instead.

Example sentence

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Relative Pronouns

PeopleWho

Whom

Possesion Whose

Things Which

Things & People That

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Sentence 1:

Sentence 2 :

Complete Sentence:

The cat belongs to Ann

The cat caught the rat

The cat which caught the rat belongs to Ann

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Sentence 1:

Sentence 2 :

Complete Sentence:

This is the man.

The man killed the snake.

This is the man who killed the snake.

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Interrogativepronouns

used in order to ask a question

They only have one form since the plural

and singular forms are indistinguishable

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Whose Whom Which What Where

-ever/-soever+

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Forms:

Subject Object Possesive

Who (people) Whom(people) Whose(possesive relation)

Which(people & object)

What(people & object)

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WHAT

What time is it?

WHICH

Which chair are you talking about?

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WHO

Who are you?

WHOSE Whose car did you drive here?

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WHOM

Whom did you phone?

For whom will you vote?

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Interrogative Pronoun

Interrogative Adjective

Which

What

Relative Pronoun

Who

Whom

Which

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Reflexive Pronoun?

'reflects' the person to whom the pronoun refers to.

[it’s a pronoun that ends with -self / -selves]

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Yourself

Themselves

Myself Yourselve

s

Them

selv

es

Hers

elf Him

self

Ourselve

s

Itself

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The Dean often does the photocopying herself so that the secretaries can do more

important work.

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Diabetics give themselves insulin shots several times a day.

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Indefinite pronounPronouns that does not refer to any particular person or thing.

body or -one for people, and pronouns ending in -thing for things:

Somebody Someone Something

anybody anyone anything

nobody no one nothing

everybody everyone everything

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• A singular verb is used after an indefinite pronoun:

Example: Everybody loves Sally.

Everything was ready for the party.

When  refering back to an indefinite pronoun, a plural pronoun is used: Example:

Everybody enjoyed the concert. They stood up and clapped. 

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• adding -'s to an indefinite pronoun makes a possessive pronoun.

Example: They were staying

in somebody’s house. Is this anybody’s coat?

• indefinite pronouns with no- is used as the subject in negative clauses (not pronouns with any.)

Example: Anybody didn’t come >> Nobody came.

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• ‘else’ is used  after indefinite pronouns to refer to people or things in addition to the ones already mentioned.

Example:

If Michael can’t come we’ll ask somebody else.

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INTENSIVE PRONOUN

An intensive pronoun is a pronoun used to emphasise its antecedent.

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Example Sentence

I myself believe that aliens should abduct my sister.

The Prime Minister himself said that he would lower taxes.

They themselves promised to come to the party even though they had a final exam at the same time.

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Demonstrative pronouns

Plural nouns

These Those

Singular nouns

This That

Points to and identifies a noun or pronoun.

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Example Sentence

Three customers wanted these.

This must not continue.

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