PRONOUNS

1) They are angry with them.

2) This is mine and that is yours.

3) Both of them completed their

assignments themselves.

Pronouns are words that

replace a noun when identifying

persons, places, things and

ideas.

Are the words underlined in the

sentences above replacing

nouns?

1)They are angry with them.

John and Mark are angry with

Molly and Mary.

2) This is mine and that is yours.

This is a demonstrative pronoun.

What is a demonstrative pronoun?

Demonstrative pronouns are

used to refer to something specific.

Demonstrative pronouns

Singular Plural

Refers to things that are close

this these

Refers to things that are far away

that those

BACK TO SENTENCE 2

What type of pronoun is that?

(look in the chart above).

Answer

That is a singular demonstrative

pronoun .

BACK TO SENTENCE 2

2) This is mine and that is yours

What type of pronoun is mine?

Mine is a Possessive pronoun –

it communicates ownership.

Possessive pronouns

Singular Plural

These words come before nouns and function as adjectives.

your, my, her, his, its

Our, your, their

These words are used alone.

Mine, yours, his, hers,

Ours, yours, theirs

BACK TO SENTENCE 2

2) This is mine and that is yours

What type of pronoun is yours? (Look

in the chart above).

Answer:

Yours is a singular possessive pronoun.

SENTENCE 3

3)Both of them completed their assignments

themselves.

What type of pronoun is both?

Answer:

Both is an indefinite pronoun – it does not

refer to any specific people, places, or thing..

INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

Singular Plural Singular or Plural

Anybody, anyone, anything, either, each, everybody, everyone, everything, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, somebody, someone, something

Both, few, many, several

All, any, most, none, some

BACK TO SENTENCE 3

What type of pronoun is

them?

(Look at the chart below)

Personal pronouns

Singular Plural

First Person: the speaker or writer

I, me We, us

Second person: the person(s) spoken to

you you

Third person: person(s) spoken or written about

She, her, he, him, it

they, them

Them is a third person plural

pronoun.

The speaker is using the word

them to refer to the two persons

he/she is talking about. ( I know

its two persons because of the

word both at the beginning of the

sentence).

LOOK AT SENTENCE 3 AGAIN

3) Both of them completed their

assignments themselves

We know what type of pronouns both and

them are. What about their? Do your

remember what type of pronoun their is?

(Please see slide 10).

LOOK AT SENTENCE 3 AGAIN

What type of pronoun is

themselves?

Themselves is a reflexive

pronoun; it refer back to the

subject.

REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS

  Singular Plural

First person

myself ourselves

Second person

yourself yourselves

Third person

himself, herself, itself,

themselves

Look at the

following

sentences, pay

careful

attention to the

underlined

words.

1) This is the dress that

she designed.

2) The actor, whom I

adore, died recently.

THE UNDERLINED WORDS ARE

relative pronouns. Relative pronouns are used to introduce a clause

that modifies a noun or a noun phrase.

RELATIVE PRONOUNS

Relative pronouns

that, which, who, whom, whose, whichever, whoever, whomever

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS

Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions –

who, whom, which, what, whose. These pronouns

represent the thing or person that the speaker is

requesting information about.

Example:

Who is that woman in the short black skirt?

What is in that box?

SUBJECT AND OBJECT PRONOUNS

1)Alec and Aria love you. (You is

the object)

2)They were happy with the gifts.

(They is the subject)

SUBJECT AND OBJECT PRONOUNS

  Singular Plural

Subjects I, you, she, he, it

you, we, they

Objects me, you, her, him, it

us, you, them

PRACTICE EXERCISE

Write a paragraph (not exceeding

50 words) describing how to make

your and your friend prepare your

favourite meal. Use as many

pronouns as you possibly can.