english course

1. Intensive Course in
General English
Session 2
Prepared by: Mr ZINAI Samir
25 – 29 December 2022.
25 Hours Course.

2. Pronouns
A pronoun replaces a noun.
Subject
Pronouns
Object
Pronouns
Possessive
Adjectives
Possessive
Pronouns
Reflexive
Pronouns
I me my mine myself
you you your yours yourself
he him his his himself
she her her hers herself
it it its its itself
We us our ours ourselves
you you your yours yourselves
they them their theirs themselves

3. Pronouns
• We use a pronouns instead of a noun when it is
clear who or what we are talking about .
Examples:
Ali is a good student. He passes all his tests.

4. Object Pronouns
 We use an object pronoun.
– After a preposition.
– After to and for with verbs like make, give,
send, lend, pass, take, show.
Do you live near them?
Send the box directly to me.
The little boy made it for her.

5. Reflexive Pronouns
 Reflexive pronouns are used:
– For emphasize
– With some special expressions
Did you do the decorations yourself ?
I did the painting myself.
Help yourself .
Enjoy yourself.
Behave yourself.
I live by myself. (I live alone)

6. Relative Pronouns
• The relative pronouns are used to join
sentences together.
Who / whom / which / whose / that

7. Relative Pronouns
Who : is used as a substitution of the «human» subject
Here is the man. The man is a doctor.
We delete “the man“ in the second sentence and replace
it with ” who “
Here is the man who is a doctor.
Examples:
1) The man came here. The man was a doctor.
The man who was here was a doctor
2) My friend swims well. He lives here.
My friend who lives here swims well.
Who

8. Relative Pronouns
Whom is used as a relative pronoun to substitute the object
Example:
The man came here. I visited him.
We delete “him” and replace it with whom in the beginning
of the second sentence,
The man whom I visited came here.
1) The man was working with me. I paid him.
The man whom I paid was working with me.
2) This is the girl. You gave her a flower.
This is the girl whom you gave a flower.
Whom

9. Relative Pronouns
Which is used to substitute the subject or the object
( Objects not People)
Example:
He found his book. He lost it yesterday.
He found his book which he lost yesterday.
1) This is the house. I live in it.
This is the house which I live in.
2) This book is cheap. It is very useful.
This book which is very useful is cheap.
Which

10. Relative Pronouns
That is used to substitute the subject or the object
(both objects and subjects)
This is the boy. You met her.
This is the boy that (whom) you met.
I have a bird. It sings.
I have a bird that (which) sings.
That

11. Relative Pronouns
Whose is used for possession.
This is the man. His car hit the boy.
This is the man whose his car hit the boy.
Here we have the word car is owned by the
man, so, we omit the possessive pronoun
his and put whose instead.
Whose

12. Thank you for
your interest and attention