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PRONOUNS
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A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
Example:-
Definition of Pronoun
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Indu is a good athlete.She is a good athlete. (The pronoun she replaces Indu.)
The beans and tomatoes are fresh-picked. They are fresh-picked. (The pronoun they replaces the beans and tomatoes.)
Examples of Pronoun
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Types are pronouns are :-
Types of Pronouns
Personal PronounsDemonstrative Pronouns,Relative pronounsIndefinite pronounsReflexive and Intensive pronounsInterrogative PronounsReciprocal pronouns
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Personal Pronoun
Personal pronouns refer to people or things. They take the place of nouns or other pronouns.
Examples :-
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Examples of Personal Pronoun
This is our dog Rusty. He's a Pug
The Titanic was a great ship but she sank on
her first voyage.
My first car was a MARUTHI and I treated her like my friend.
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Demonstrative Pronoun
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A demonstrative pronoun points out a noun, it acts as a pronoun, taking the place of a noun.
Example :-
Definition of Demonstrative pronoun
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Exercises on Personal Pronoun & Demonstrative pronoun
________ is dreaming(George).
________ is running(the dog)
________ are in the garden
________ book is expensive
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Relative Pronoun
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A relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces a relative clause. It is called a "relative" pronoun because it "relates"
to the word that it modifies.
Definition of Relative Pronoun
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Here is an example:The person who phoned me last night is my teacher.In the above example, "who":relates to "person", which it modifies introduces the relative clause "who phoned me last night"
Example of Relative Pronoun
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The most common relative pronouns are who/whom, whoever/whomever, whose, that, and which.
Common Relative Pronoun
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The table below sums up the use of relative pronouns in restrictive relative clauses:
Relative Pronoun
Function in the sentence
Reference to
People Things / concepts Place Time Explanation
Subject who, that which, that
Object (that, who, whom)*
(which, that)* where when what/why
Possessive whose whose, of which
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Add an indefinite pronoun to complete each sentence. (Whose, Who, Where, Which, That)
1. This is the school ____I used to study.
2. This test is for students _____native language is not English.
3. The students ____lost his bag is waiting in the office.
4. I ate all the cake ____ you gave me.
5. I put everything in my suitcase, _____is under my bed.
Exercise: Relative Pronoun
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Indefinite Pronoun
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Indefinite pronouns are used to refer to people, places, or things that are unknown or not
stated. Indefinite pronouns use thesingular form of verbs (like he, she, or it)
Definition of Indefinite pronoun
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Indefinite pronouns usually begin with:any (anyone, anybody)
every (everyone, everybody)some (someone, somebody)
no (no one, nobody)
Indefinite pronouns
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Add an indefinite pronoun to complete each sentence. (Anybody, Everybody, She)
1. Has ______seen my blue notebook?
2. The party is going to be great! ___will be there.
3. ______ left the freezer open, and the
ice cream melted.
Exercise
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An interrogative pronoun
is a pronoun used
in order to ask a question
Meaning of Interrogative Pronoun
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In modern English
there are five interrogative pronouns.
“What, which, who, whom, and whose’’
TYPES
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Note –
All five words may also be used as relative pronouns.
A relative pronoun may be found in a question; an interrogative pronoun is found only in a question
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What did you say?
Who said that?
Which car is this?
Whom did you meet?
Whose tiffin is this?
Examples (interrogative pronoun)
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Choose from the given(What, which, who, whom, and whose)
1 - is your name? 2 - are you? 3 - are you from? 4 - are you? 5 - do you usually do your homework? 6 - do you go to the movies? 7 - do you get up?
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A reciprocal pronoun is a pronoun used to identify an action or feeling that is reciprocated
We use reciprocal pronouns when each of two or more subjects is acting in the same way towards the other.
For example, Ram is talking to Sita, and Sita is talking to Ram. So we say-
• Ram and Sita are talking to each other
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There are only two reciprocal pronouns, and they are both two words:
• each other
• one another
When we use these reciprocal pronouns:
• there must be two or more people, things or groups involved (so we cannot use reciprocal pronouns with I, you [singular], he/she/it), and
• they must be doing the same thing
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• John and Mary love each other.
• Peter and David hate each other.
• The ten prisoners were all blaming one another.
• Both teams played hard against each other.
• We gave each other gifts.
• The gangsters were fighting one another.
EXAMPLES
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Choose from the given(each other, one another)
1. John and Mary love -.
2. Peter and David hate -.
3. The ten prisoners were all blaming -.
4. Both teams played hard against -.
5. We gave - gifts.
6. The gangsters were fighting -
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