1. Pronouns

2. 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.

3. Types of Pronouns Personal Indefinite Demonstrative Interrogative
Relative
Reflexive
Intensive

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Demonstrative Pronoun
A pronoun that points out an intended referent.
Examples: this, that.

7. Interrogative pronouns
A pronoun used in order to ask a question
Example: what, which, whom, who, whose
What did you say?
Who said that?

8. Relative Pronoun
Used to link one phrase or clause to another phrase or clause.
Examples: who, whom, whose, that, which.

9. Reflexive pronouns
Refers back to the subject of the clause or the sentence.
Examples: myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves.

10. Intensive pronoun
An intensive pronoun is used to emphasize its antecedent.
Example: myself, himself, themselves
I myself believe that aliens are coming.

11. Run-on Sentences

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. By: Amber Bernard Tiffany Carpenter KaShawna Murray Shenekia Williams