The document discusses different types of pronouns, including personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, reflexive pronouns, intensive pronouns, indefinite pronouns, and reciprocal pronouns. It provides examples and explanations of how each type of pronoun functions in a sentence, whether as a subject, object, or to show possession. Pronouns can be singular or plural and are used to replace nouns to avoid repetition.
2. Understanding Pronoun
Pronoun is a word used to replace a noun which can be
a person, object, animal, place, and abstract concepts.
Pronoun is one of the eight parts of speech.
4. A. They replace or refer to a specific
person, subject, place, object ,or Thing
B. Take the place of three person :
C. Can be divided into singular or plural pronouns
5. A. They replace or refer to a specific
person, subject, place, object ,or Thing
Subject
object
They
Them
We
As
I
Me
You
You
She
Her
He
Him
it
It
6. B. Take the place of three person
The first person or the person speaking (I, we)
Example:
He plays tennis
The second person or the person spoken to (you)
Example :
They like your house
The third or the person spoken about ( he, she, it and
they).
Example :
I love cheesecak
7. C. Can be divided into singular or plural pronouns
Singular
pronoun
Plural
pronoun
I
You
You
They
She
we
He
it
8. They are used to show possession / ownership
As adjectives
As pronoun
Example
Example
My
This is my pen
Mine
This pen is mine
Your
These are your book
Yours
These books are yours
His
Those are not his bag
His
Those bags are not his
Her
It is her pet
Hers
The pet is hers
Our
That is our brand new car
Our
That brand new car is ours
Their
That is their big house
Theirs
The big house is their
its
Its tail is long
its
The kennel is its (belong to cat)
9. They are used to show which noun we are talking about
Example
singular
This old dress was my mother’s wedding dress
that
plural
This
That blue car is a vintage ford
These These pretty flowers came from my
garden
those
Those white shirts are made of linen
10. They are
Question word
What, Which, Who, Whom, Whose
Used to ask question and begin a sentence
Which came first, the chicken or the egg ?
What are those things made of?
Who was the first man on the moon
12. Reflexive pronouns are used when the subject and
the object are the same or that the subject and the
object refer to the same noun or pronoun.
Example
Myself
I wrote the poem myself
Yourself / yourself
you hit yourself with a hammer
Ourselves
we do the homework (by) ourselves
Themselves
all her friends enjoyed themselves riding best friend the truth
itself
the dog opened the door (by) itself
13. Intensive pronoun also and in -self or -selves but just add
emphasis to the noun or pronoun ( the subject) in a sentence.
The subject (doer) who does the action also feels the effect of
the action.
If you want a job done well, you yourself have to do it.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves
have poisoned the house
Ewan himself designed the house
He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he
himself was a lunatic
Suryani herself picked out the car
It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it
possible to become what you yourself would approve
14. Indefinite
pronouns
refer
to
people, places, objects, or things without pointing to a
specific one. The most common indefinite pronouns
show singular and plural indefinite pronouns. The list
below shows pronouns that can be either singular or
plural, depending on how they are used in a sentence:
Singular
Plural
singular or plural
16. indefinite pronouns that end in –body are always
singular. These words include as follow : anybody,
somebody, nobody, etc
-body
-one
-thing
Some-
Somebody
Someone
something
Any-
Anybody
Anyone
Anything
No-
Nobody
No one
nothing
Every-
everybody
everyone
Everything
17. indefinite pronouns that end in –one are always singular. These
words include anyone , everyone, someone, and one.
One of the gerbils is missing.
Singular
singular
Subject
verb
the indefinite pronouns both, few, many, others, and several are
always plural
both of the gerbils are missing.
Plural
plural
Subject
verb
Many of the guests are sick of tedious ted’s endless Chatter.
Plural
plural
Subject
verb
the indefinite pronouns all, any, more, most, none, and some can be
singular or plural, depending on how they are used. All is being used
to indicate one unit. As a result, it requires the singular verb was.
All of the beef stew was devoured.
Singular
singular
Subject
verb
18. They indicate the individual members of a plural subject
mutually React one on the other. they are:
each other
each other is more common when only two people are
involved.
We sent each other Eid cards.(we sent them an eid card And
they sent us an eid card.)
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. The
trainees are greeting each other.
one another
one another is more common when more people are
involved.
They didn’t look at one another. (he didn’t look at her and she
didn’t look at him.)
five mountaineers helped one another during the storm.
The students rated one another’s creation.
19. Note:
Each other and one another are both pronouns
Traditionally, each other refers to two people and one
another Refers to more than two people, but this
distinction is disappearing In modern English.
Don’t use each other or one another as a subject of a
clause.
We also use the possessive forms each other’s and one
another’s.
They helped to look after each other’s children.
We often stayed in one another’s houses.
Each other and one another are alternate ways of saying
the Same thing.
They love each other. They love one another.
20. when each is used
1) with a singular noun, it is followed by a singular verb.
Each day brings a new beginning and hope.
Each star in the sky is different.
2) With a plural noun, it is followed by a plural verb
The students each have their own computer.
The teachers each have different ideas about education.
the pronoun some is used to show an uncertain
quantity or number. It is generally used in affirmative
sentences.
I ate some biscuits this morning.
She needs some money for the trip
21. Pronoun is a word used to replace a noun (noun)
which can be a person, object, animal, place, and
abstract concepts. Pronoun is one of the eight parts of
speech. Types of Pronoun, namely: Personal Pronouns,
Possessive Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns,
Interrogative Pronouns, Reflexive Pronouns, Intensive
Pronouns, Indefinite Pronouns, Reciprocal Pronouns
and Pronouns each, some.