This document provides an overview of indefinite, reflexive, intensive, interrogative, and demonstrative pronouns. It defines each type of pronoun, provides examples, and has practice questions for students to identify pronoun usage. The objective is for students to understand how to define and identify these pronoun types. Homework involves completing a review worksheet and creating flashcards or a chart summarizing all pronoun categories and properties.

1. Grammar Wednesday
Chapter 4
Section 5,6,7

2. Indefinite, Reflexive, Intensive, and
Interrogative, and Demonstrative Pronouns
December 14, 2011
 Warm up: How many words can you make by
combining the following words. Write all the words
you can think of.
any, some, no, thing, body, one
 Today’s objective is to define and identify
indefinite, reflexive, intensive, interrogative, and
demonstrative pronouns.

3. Indefinite Pronouns
 Does not refer to a particular person, place or
thing.
 Singular—All words made in the warm up
Plus, another, much, neither, each, and either
 Plural—Both, few, many, others, several
 Depends—All, any, most, none, some

4. So?
 Subject-Verb Agreement
 Example:
Everyone eats (his or her, their) lunch.
 Example:
Many are enjoying (his or her, their) roles
in the play.

5. Reflexive and Intensive
Pronouns
 ends with –self or –selves and refers to the
subject of a sentence. In a sentence with a
reflexive pronoun, the action of the verb returns
to the subject. As an intensive pronoun, it
serves to draw special attention to a noun
already named.
 Singular-myself, yourself, himself, herself,
itself
 Plural-ourselves, yourselves, themselves

6. So?
 No hisself!
 No theirselves!
 The volunteers were proud of
(themselves, theirselves).
 Jim repaired the old grandfather clock
(himself, hisself).

7. Interrogative and Demonstrative
Pronouns
 a pronoun used to introduce an interrogative (question)
sentence.
 Who—subject and refers to people
 Whom-object and refers to people
 Which and what—refer to things and ideas
 Whose—shows possession. Don’t confuse it with
who’s. That’s a contraction!
 This, these, that, those—Refer to things nearby and
at a distance.

8. Practice
 Everyone (wonder, wonders) about the
accuracy of the story in the newspaper.
 In my opinion, all of the action movies this
summer (are, is) unrealistic.
 Everyone in John’s class (is, are) grossed out
by his nose picking habit.
 The engineers (theirselves, themselves)
examined the bridge.

9. Practice
 (Whose, Who’s) that bald man with the yellow
umbrella?
 (Whose, Who’s) are the red sneakers with the
pink shoelaces?
 (Who, Whom) has won the election?
 Esi and (I, myself) learned about Neil
Armstrong.
 Did anybody pick (his or her, their) nose during
class?

10. Practice
 Few of the students (have, has) volunteered
yet.
 All of the sugar (are, is) spilling onto the floor.
 Mr. McFadden bought (himself, hisself) a new
tractor for his fields.
 This book is (mines, mine’s, mine).
 (It’s, Its) fun in English class.
 The dog chased (it’s, its) ball through the back
yard.

11. Homework and Review
 Due Tuesday December 20, 2011
 Test Wednesday December 21, 2011
 Complete the Unit 4 Review handout.
 Then complete one of the following.
 Look through your notes and make a flash card for each
pronoun. On one side write the pronoun. On the other, write all
the ways you would classify that pronoun or any special
instructions. (Remember, number, person, and case.)
 Look through all of your notes and create a poster-sized chart
of all of the pronouns we have discussed. You can organize the
pronouns by each category and include person, case, and
number.