Pronouns
What is a Pronoun? One of the eight parts of speech Used to replace a noun or another pronoun A pronoun can refer to a person, place, idea, or object The nurse took care of me. She was very nice. The word the pronoun replaces is called an antecedent. Nurse/antecedent…was replaced by she A pronoun can be indefinite (anybody, all, everyone)
Personal Pronouns…3 Kinds Personal Pronouns: Subject..Object..Possessive SubjectObjectPossessive Singular First PersonIMeMy, mine Second Person You Your, yours Third PersonHe, she, itHim, her, itHis, her, hers, its Plural First PersonWeUsOur, ours Second Person You Your, yours Third PersonTheyThemTheir, theirs
Personal Pronouns: Three Kinds SubjectObjectPossessive Singular First Person Second Person Third Person Plural First Person Plural Second Person Third Person
Subject Pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they A subject pronoun is used as a subject of a sentence: He went to the store. She and I are friends. A subject pronoun can be used as predicate pronoun…a predicate pronoun will follow a LINKING VERB…a predicate pronoun renames the subject The first student in the room was I. The winners were she and I.
Using I and Me I: a subject pronoun: used as a subject or a predicate pronoun I gave the letter to Mary. Me: an object pronoun: used as a direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition The ball hit me. (direct object) The teacher gave him the note. (indirect object) Can you tell the story to her. ( object of the preposition) How to decide when combined with a noun or pronoun? Use the pronoun by itself Joe and I went to school. I went to school The teacher gave Harry and me the note. The teacher gave me the note. When using I or me with other nouns or pronouns, name yourself last Mary and I grew the flowers. Betty moved Dave and me from the water.
Object Pronouns Me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them Direct object: the pronoun receives the action of a verb (action verb) and answers the question whom or what: The animal bit me. Indirect object: the pronoun tells what was given..comes between action verb and direct object : I told her the story. Object of the preposition: Pronoun follows a preposition: I ran into you at the store. I received the letter from him.
Possessive Pronouns My, mine, your, yours, her, hers, his, its, our, ours, your, yours, their, theirs Possessive pronouns, my, your, her, his, its, our, and their come before a noun. The little boy took his book with him. I received my award at the banquet. Possessive pronouns mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, and theirs can stand alone in a sentence. That book is mine. Mine is the black coat. Is that yours? Don’t confuse possessive pronouns with a contraction: its/it’s your/you’re their/they’re Its paw was hurt. It’s your turn to empty the trash.
Contractions with Pronouns Contraction: shortened form of two words…needs an ‘ Pronoun + VerbContraction I am He is It is You are They are I will You will We would
More contractions… Pronoun + verbContraction I have He has It has You have They have I had You had We had
Double Subjects We don’t need two: We do not need a noun and a pronoun to name the SAME person, place, idea, object… Incorrect: Tom he won the race. Correct: Tom won the race or He won the race Incorrect: The ball it was deflated. Correct: The ball was deflated. Or It was deflated.
Using we and us with Nouns…little help please Sometimes you use a noun with WE and US to help clarify the meaning in the sentence. We girls decorated the door….We decorated the door. (subject pronoun) The funniest people are we boys…The funniest people are we. ( predicate pronoun) The paint fell on us boys….The paint fell on us. ( object pronoun…object of the preposition) They gave us boys the reward…They gave us the reward. ( object pronoun…direct object)