Pronouns
A pronoun is a word used in place of (for) a noun. What is a pronoun? A pronoun is a word used in place of (for) a noun.
Types of Pronouns Personal Indefinite Demonstrative Interrogative Relative Reflexive Intensive
Personal pronouns Refers to a specific person or thing and changes its form to indicate person, number, gender, and case. Examples: are, my, mine, me, you, your, he, his, him, she, her, hers, it, they, theirs, them.
Indefinite pronoun Designate an unidentified or not immediately identifiable person or thing. Example: are, all, any, anyone, both, either, many, each, nobody, none, some, something, everything.
Demonstrative Pronoun A pronoun that points out an intended referent. Examples: this, that.
Interrogative pronouns A pronoun used in order to ask a question Example: what, which, whom, who, whose What did you say? Who said that?
Relative Pronoun Used to link one phrase or clause to another phrase or clause. Examples: who, whom, whose, that, which.
Reflexive pronouns Refers back to the subject of the clause or the sentence. Examples: myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves.
Intensive pronoun An intensive pronoun is used to emphasize its antecedent. Example: myself, himself, themselves I myself believe that aliens are coming.
Run-on Sentences
Run-on sentences What is a Run-on sentence? A run-on sentence is an ungrammatical construction in which two or more independent clauses are improperly joined without a conjunction or appropriate punctuation. When a sentence contains several subjects and verb combinations causing the reader to read on and on, that sentence is called a run-on sentence. The effect is that the reader loses the main idea of the sentence.
Examples of run-on sentences Incorrect: The girl walked to the store she went to buy potato chips. Correct: The girl walked to the store; she went to buy potato chips.
By: Amber Bernard Tiffany Carpenter KaShawna Murray Shenekia Williams