This document defines and describes different types of pronouns: - Personal pronouns refer to specific people or things and include subject and object cases. - Possessive pronouns indicate possession. - Reflexive pronouns reflect back to a noun, add new information, and cannot be removed from sentences. - Intensive pronouns add emphasis and can be removed from sentences. - Demonstrative pronouns point out specific nouns and include this/that for singular and these/those for plural. - Interrogative pronouns form questions. - Relative pronouns begin subordinate clauses. - Indefinite pronouns refer to unspecified persons or things

1. PronounsPronouns

2. Objectives:
• To identify types of pronouns
• To use pronoun correctly in writing

3. Definition:
• A pronoun is a word that takes the
place of a noun, a group of words
acting as a noun, or another pronoun.
• The word or words that a pronoun
replaces is called the antecedent.
• The pronoun must match the
antecedent in number and gender.

4. Types:
• Personal
• Possessive
• Reflexive
• Intensive
• Demonstrative
• Interrogative
• Relative
• Indefinite

5. Personal
• Refer to a specific person or thing by
indicating the person speaking, the
person being addressed, or any other
person or thing being discussed
• Cases:
– Subject: I, you, he, she, it, we, they
– Object: me, you, him, her, it, us, them

6. Possessive:
• Used to indicate
possession or
ownership
• Singular
– My, mine
– Your, yours
– His, her, hers, its
• Plural
– Our, ours
– Your, yours
– Their, theirs

7. Reflexive:
• Refers or reflects
back to a noun or
pronoun already
mentioned
• Add new
information
• Cannot be removed
from the sentence
• Singular
– Myself
– Yourself
– Himself, herself,
itself
• Plural
– Ourselves
– Yourselves
– Themselves

8. I consider myself to be a great student.
Reflexive
pronoun
antecedent

9. Intensive
• Add emphasis
• Can be removed
from the sentence
• Singular
– Myself
– Yourself
– Himself, herself,
itself
• Plural
– Ourselves
– Yourselves
– Themselves

10. Mom drove me to school herself.
Intensive
pronoun
Antecedent

11. Demonstrative:
• Point out specific
persons, places,
things, or ideas
• Singular
– This (near)
– That (far)
• Plural
– these (near)
– those (far)That is my car.
Those are his shoes.

12. Interrogative:
• Used to form questions
– Who
– Whom
– Whose
– What
– Which
Whose jacket is this?
Which of those girls do you
like?

13. Relative:
• Used to begin a special subject-verb word
group called a subordinate clause.
– Who, whoever
– Whose
– Whom, whomever
– That
– Which, whichever
– What, whatever
Whoever borrowed my
book needs to return it.

14. `
All Either Much Others
Another Enough Neither Plenty
Any Everybody Nobody Several
Anybody Everyone None Some
Anything Few Nothing Someone

15. Pronouns:
• A pronoun is a word that takes the
place of a noun
• The word replaced is called the
antecedent
• The pronoun must match its
antecedent in number and gender
• Pronouns make English easier