Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns PRONOUNS

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Pronouns A word used in place of a noun or of more than one noun. –Example Richie sat quietly at the desk. He used it as a pillow. He is used in place of Richie. It is used in place of desk.

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Antecedent The noun being replaced by the pronoun. –Richie sat quietly at the desk. He used it as a pillow. Richie is the antecedent of he. Desk is the antecedent of it.

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Types of Pronouns Personal Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns Reflexive Pronouns

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Personal Pronouns Refers to a person or thing

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Personal Pronouns SingularPlural FIRST PERSON I, my, mine, me we, our, ours, us SECOND PERSON you, your, yours THIRD PERSON he, his, him, she, her, hers, it, its they, their, theirs, them

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Relative Pronouns Used to introduce adjective and noun clauses –Who –Whom –Whose –Which –That

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Used in questions –Who…? –Whose…? –What…? –Whom…? –Which…?

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns Used to point out a specific person or thing –This –That –These –Those

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns Not referring to a definite person or thing

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns All Another Any Anybody Anyone Anything both Each Either Everybody Everyone Everything Few Many

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns More Most Much Neither Nobody None No one One Other Several Some Somebody Someone Such

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Reflexive Pronouns The –self, -selves forms of the personal pronouns ***Never write or say hisself or theirselves

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Reflexive Pronouns MyselfOurselves YourselfYourselves Himself, herself, itselfthemselves

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns Assignment On a separate sheet of paper, please rewrite the following sentences. Number your paper 1-21 and write down each pronoun. Also, identify the type of all the pronouns found in the paragraph. The number in parenthesis tells you how many pronouns are in that sentence. –Example: Kevin bought himself a pillow himself—reflexive pronoun

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns 1.Yesterday, a kid named Kevin bought himself a pillow. (1) 2.He used it for many reasons. (3) 3.But his favorite reason to use his pillow was so he could sleep in English class. (3) 4.This class was very boring for Kevin. (1) 5.He thought this class was easy for most students, but he was wrong. (4)

Geschke/English IV Grammar Unit-- Pronouns 6. These students in this class were confident in themselves. (3) 7. Even though they were confident, they knew they still had to work hard and not fall asleep like him. (4) 8. Who knows which way is better? (2)