Personal and Compound Personal Pronouns

Personal and Compound Personal Pronouns

Language 6

What's a Noun?​

​Do you remember what a noun is? What is the function of a noun again?

​A noun is a name!

• ​A noun is a part of speech that refers to the name of a person, animal, place, object, event, or idea. In simpler terms, a noun is the name of a person, animal, place, object, event, or idea.

• ​Nouns are important to our society! Without nouns, it will be hard for us to live in our society.

Let's take a look at an example!

• Steph Curry is a famous basketball player. Steph is known to be great at ball handling and 3-point shooting. Steph currently plays for the Golden State Warriors. Steph is an important member of the team because Steph helped the Warriors defeat strong contending teams. Steph played a crucial role when the team won its back-to-back championship title back in 2017-2018.

Don't you think we're repeating Steph's Curry way too many times?

​Pronouns!

Here to makes our sentences more pleasant!​

​What is a pronoun?

A pronoun is a part of speech that takes the place of a noun. Instead of repeating the nouns over and over again in a text, we use pronouns to refer to them. It is important for us to understand that pronouns must match the noun it replaces!

A noun being replaced by a pronoun is what we call an antecedent. You will hear this term often when dealing with pronouns. The pronoun has to match its antecedent to avoid confusion.

Example!

Lionel Messi is a famous football player. She is an Argentine football player. It started to play for a Spanish football club called FC Barcelona. He is now currently playing in Paris-Saint Germain F.C. I am my favorite football player!

As you can see, there is a terrible and confusing situation going on. Is Lionel Messi a male or a female? Is Lionel Messi an object or an animal? Why did the sentence suddenly shift in subject? It's oh so confusing!

​Take a look!

Pronouns must agree with their antecedents in three basic ways:

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• Gender - male, female, or neuter

• Case - subject, object, or possessive (1st, 2nd, 3rd person POV)

• Number - singular or plural

List of pronouns!

1. Subject pronouns (singular) - I, he, she, it, you

2. ​Subject pronouns (plural) - you, we, they

3. ​Object pronouns (singular) - him, her, me, you, it

4. ​Object pronouns (plural) - them, us, you

5. ​Possessive pronouns (singular) - mine, my, his, her, hers, its

6. ​Possessive pronouns (plural) - theirs, their, ours, our, your, yours

Multiple Choice

Rhinos are strong animals. _____ can badly hurt you if you are not careful.

• Them

• They

• It

• You

Multiple Choice

Jane loves bears! _____ likes to read about ____ during her free time.

• They, it

• She, it

• She, them

• She, they

Multiple Choice

Jack knows how to make a great pineapple juice from fresh pineapples. That's ______ best recipe so far.

• his

• her

• they

• our

Don't forget about these pronouns!​

They are useful in our lives!​

Open Ended

What is a pronoun?

​Reflexive Pronouns

​Also known as Compound Personal Pronouns

​Compound? Like Compound Words?

​When we say compound, it refers to a combination of two individual parts. A compound personal pronoun is what happens when we add -self or -selves to a personal pronoun.

List of Reflexive pronouns!

1. First-person point of view - myself, ourselves

2. ​Second-person point of view - yourself, yourselves

3. ​Third-person point of view - himself, herself, themselves

​Take Note!

​Compound personal pronouns must not be used in place of personal pronouns. It is a good rule to use a compound personal pronoun only when the word it refers to has been used in the same sentence.

Multiple Choice

I heard the story myself!

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Yourself have to be responsible for your own actions.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Theo loves to read poems. Himself got the habit from his father Ricardo.

• Correct

• Incorrect

​Intensifier

​An intensive compound personal pronoun is used to intensify or emphasize a noun or another pronoun. It is placed after the noun or pronoun or at the end of the sentence.

​Examples

• ​I myself will finish the task!

• Officer Sally witnessed the crime herself.

• We ourselves should take care of our health.

​Reflexive!

​A reflexive compound personal pronoun or also known as a reflexive pronoun is used as a direct object when the object is the same as the subject of the verb. This kind of personal pronoun can also be used as the object of the preposition.

​Examples

• I am teaching myself how to play the drums.

• Anakin did not control the anger inside himself.

• Watch out with the knife! You might cut yourself.

Multiple Choice

Jordan returned the books to the library himself.

• Intensive

• Reflexive

Multiple Choice

Jordan found himself confused with how the bookshelves were organized.

• Intensive

• Reflexive

Multiple Choice

Sally harvested the eggplants herself today.

• Intensive

• Reflexive

Multiple Choice

Sally figured out how to do it herself!

• Intensive

• Reflexive

Multiple Choice

Sally enjoys learning these things for herself.

• Intensive

• Reflexive