Pronouns

Pronouns

WHAT ARE PRONOUNS

a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse.

TYPES OF PRONOUNS

• Personal Pronouns

• Possessive Pronouns

• Relative Pronouns

• Reflexive Pronouns

• Demonstrative Pronouns

• Interrogative Pronouns

PERSONAL PRONOUNS

A personal pronoun is a short word we use as a simple substitute for the proper name of a person. Each of the English personal pronouns shows us the grammatical person, gender, number, and case of the noun it replaces. I, you, he, she, it, we they, me, him, her, us, and them are all personal pronouns

POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

The possessive pronouns are my, our, your, his, her, its, and their. There's also an “independent” form of each of these pronouns: mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, and theirs. Possessive pronouns are never spelled with apostrophes.

REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS

Reflexive pronouns are words like myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves and themselves. They refer back to a person or thing. We often use reflexive pronouns when the subject and the object of a verb are the same. I cut myself when I was making dinner last night.

RELATIVE PRONOUNS

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that heads an adjective clause. The relative pronouns are "that," "which," "who," "whom," and "whose

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS

An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how. They are sometimes called wh-words, because in English most of them start with wh-. They may be used in both direct questions and in indirect questions

DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS

Demonstratives are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others. They are typically deictic; their meaning depending on a particular frame of reference and cannot be understood without context. 

Multiple Select

Selena and I went to the movies

• Selena

• I

• Movies

• went

Poll

Monica's mom asked her to do the chores

• Mom

• Monica

• Her

• Chores

Multiple Select

He slept in his own bed by himself

• slept

• He

• himself

• bed

Multiple Choice

Which shoes is perfect for him

• Shoes

• Which

• Perfect

• Him

Poll

Whom did you give my book to

• Whom

• Book

• did

• my

Poll

Is That my chocolate cookie you

• That

• Chocolate

• Cookie

• you