Lesson 2: Pronouns - Personal, Reflexive, and Intensive

Lesson 2: Pronouns - Personal, Reflexive, and Intensive

Objective: I can identify personal, reflexive, and intensive pronouns.

​Read the following paragraph:

​Doug ate pizza after basketball practice. Doug prefers pepperoni, but Doug's sister ordered cheese. For Doug, this was not a dealbreaker. Doug grabbed a piece right away.

Open Ended

What do you notice about the writing in this paragraph?

​Read the following paragraph now with pronouns:

​Doug ate pizza after basketball practice. He prefers pepperoni, but his sister ordered cheese. For him, this was not a dealbreaker. He grabbed a piece right away.

Open Ended

Based on the last paragraph, why do you think we use pronouns in our writing?

​Why do we use pronouns in our writing?

• ​pronouns replace nouns to make sentences flow, create shorter sentences, and provide less repetition in our writing

• ​pronouns refer back to nouns earlier in the sentence

• ​an antecedent is a noun a pronoun references

  • ​Doug ate pizza after basketball practice. He prefers pepperoni.

    • ​Doug is the antecedent in the paragraph. He, him, and his refer back to Doug the noun.

​Personal Pronouns

• ​take the place of a specific person, place, or thing

• ​provide information about the "person" in a grammatical sense

• ​First Person: I, we (the speaker or writer)

• ​Second Person: you (the listener or reader)

• ​Third Person: it, he, she, they (everyone and everything else)

​Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns

• ​made from personal pronoun and the suffix - self (singular) or -selves (plural or more than one)

• ​Reflexive: reflects back on the noun or pronoun already mentioned

  • ​Ex. I helped myself to a bowl of soup.

• ​Intensive: emphasizes a noun or pronoun already mentioned

  • ​Ex. Jake wrote that poem himself.

​How Can You Tell

Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns Apart?

Intensive pronouns

• aren’t essential to a sentence’s basic meaning

• remove them from the sentence and the sentence will still make sense.

• Ex. Jake wrote that poem himself.

​Reflexive pronouns

• are essential to a sentence’s basic meaning

• remove them from the sentence and the sentence will not make sense.

• Ex. I helped myself to a bowl of soup

• ​Ex. Who was helped to a bowl of soup? Myself needs to stay in the sentence.

Multiple Choice

What type of pronoun is this?

She was so angry at her friend for lying.

• personal

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

Reflexive or Intensive?

You yourself witnessed the oath between us.

• personal

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

Are you going to handle yourself appropriately?

• personal

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

What do you still need to do?

• personal

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

You don't love yourself enough.

• personal

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

I myself cleaned this kitchen!

• personal

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

Give me your keys, and I'll unlock the car.

• personal

• intensive

• reflexive

Homework: Complete Practice Exercises

2.1 and 2.2​

​Due Friday, November 5th