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Pronouns 100425004955 Phpapp01
Pronouns 100425004955 Phpapp01
NS I She
He
Us
WWee
Definition
"Pronoun" i s the sentence
element used to replace a
noun, or a noun equivalent
constructi on. The
replaced nouni s named
the "antecedent".
CATEGORIE
S OF
PRONOUNS
Syntactically, pronouns have the
same functions as nouns do;
morphologically, pronouns are used
to avoid repetition, and to
set/clarify nouns' categories of
number, person, and gender.
There are eight categories of pronouns, The categories of
1. Personal Pronouns.
2. Possessi ve Pronouns .
3. Demonstrative Pronouns.
4. Reflexive and Emphatic Pronouns.
5. Interrogative Pronouns.
6. Relative Pronouns.
7. Reciprocal Pronouns.
8. Indefinite Pronouns.
PERSONAL
PRONOUN
Personal pronouns represent specific people or
things. We use them depending on:
number: singular (I) or plural ( we).
person: 1st person (I), 2nd person (you) or 3rd
person(he).
gender: male (he), female (she) or neuter (it).
case: subject (we) or object (us).
personal pronouns
number person gender subject object
1st male/female I me
2nd male/female you you
singular male he him
3rd female she her
neuter it it
1st male/female we us
2nd male/female you you
plural
male/female/
3rd neuter they them
Examples (in each case, the first example shows a subject pronoun, the second
an object pronoun):
- I like coffee.
- John helped me.
- Do you like coffee?
- John loves you.
- He runs fast.
- Did Ram beat him?
-She is clever.
- Does Mary know her?
- We went home.
-Anthony drove us.
-It's raining.
-It will probably be hot tomorrow.
-Is it nine o'clock yet?
-It's 50 kilometers from here to
Cambridge.
Possessive
Pronouns
- We use possessive pronouns to refer to a specific
person/people or thing/things (the "antecedent")
belonging to a person/people (and sometimes belonging to
an animal/animals or thing/things).
- be subject or object.
-refer to a singular or plural antecedent.
gender (of possessive
number person "owner") pronouns
-All the essays were good but his was the best.
(subject
= his essay)
-John found his passport but Mary couldn't find hers.
(object = her passport)
Singular Plural
Used my our
befor your your
e
nouns his, her, its
their
Used mine ours
alone yours yours
his, hers, its
theirs
REFLEXIVE
AND
EMPHATIC
PRONOUN
Definitions
-Reflexive pronoun is used with an active voice verb in order
to reflect the action of the verb back on the subject--the
antecedent.
reflexive pronoun
myself
singular yoursel
f
himself,
herself,
itself
ourselves
plural yourselves
themselves
the underlined words are
the SAME person/thing
thing what
person/thing which
What's An accident's
happened? happened. subject
Relative
Pronouns
- 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.
Pronouns
-We use reciprocal pronouns when
each of two or more subjects is
acting in the same way towards the
other.
PRONOUN
An indefinite pronoun does
not refer to any specific
person, thing or amount. It
is vague and "not
definite". Some typical
indefinite pronouns are:
Some Indefinite Pronouns
Singular Plural
another everybody no one both
anybody everyone nothing few
anyone everything one many
anything much somebody others
each neither someone several
either nobody something
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