Personal and Intensive Pronouns

Pronouns Personal and Possessive Form

Pronoun

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

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Personal Pronouns

Personal pronouns are the words you may like others to use for you in place of your proper name.

Personal Pronouns

• I, Me

• You

• He

• She

• They

• We, Us

• It​

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Possessive Pronouns

A pronoun indicating possession, for example mine, yours, hers, theirs.

Possessive Pronouns

• My

• Your

• His

• Her

• Their

• Our

• Its​

Personal and Possessive Pronouns

Personal Possessive

• I, Me My

• You Your

• He His

• She Her

• They Their

• We, Us Our

• It​ Its

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Multiple Choice

The books on the shelf belong to Tia. They are hers.

• Personal Pronoun

• Possessive Pronoun

Multiple Choice

Peter told us to be seated outside.

• Personal Pronoun

• Possessive Pronoun

Multiple Choice

I noticed they were watching a movie.

• Personal Pronoun

• Possessive Pronoun

Multiple Choice

Identify the personal pronoun.

His dog is loving. It always licks my face.

• his

• it

• both

Fill in the Blank

I bought this dress yesterday. It is ______

Fill in the Blank

Yana will be holding ____ birthday party this weekend.

Multiple Choice

Either Kanan or I will bring the pizzas for the party.

• Personal Pronoun

• Possessive Pronoun

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between personal and possessive pronouns?

• Style

• Capital Letters

• Personals pronouns are words use for you in place of your proper name and Possessive pronouns indicate possession.

• There is no difference.

Subject and Object Pronouns

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.

• Use a subject pronoun in the subject of a sentence.

• Use an object pronoun after a verb or after a word such as for or to.

​They played baseball. (They is the subject)

Jake coached them. (Them is the object of the sentence)

Multiple Choice

Use a _______ in the subject of a sentence.

• pronoun

• subject pronoun

• object pronoun

Multiple Choice

Use an ______ after a verb or after a word such as for or to.

• pronoun

• subject pronoun

• object pronoun

Examples of Subject Pronouns

• I never liked snakes.

• We want to leave the island.

• She found two in the house.

• They are just creepy.

Multiple Select

Select all the subject pronouns.

• We

• They

• She

• He

Examples of Object Pronouns

• Snakes have always scared me.

• Snakes are too gross for us.

• One snake almost bit her.

• My sister and I hate them.

Multiple Select

Select all the object pronouns.

• him

• us

• me

• them

Multiple Choice

What is the subject pronoun in the following sentence?

I can't wait for us to leave.

• I

• Us

Multiple Choice

What is the subject pronoun in the following sentence?

They went with them this weekend.

• They

• them

Multiple Choice

What is the object pronouns in the following sentence?

Are you coming with us?

• her

• she

• us

Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to point out a particular person, place, thing, or idea.

• The demonstrative pronouns are this, that, these, and those.

Multiple Choice

What is a pronoun?

• Words to fill blanks in sentences.

• A word that can function by itself.

• Word used to buy ice cream.

• I don't know.

They can refer to things near in space or time (this and these), or things far in space or time (that and those).

• Ex. This is my mother’s ring.

• Ex. That looks like the car I used to drive.

• Ex. These are nice shoes, but they’re uncomfortable.

• Ex. Those look riper than the apples on my tree.

Fill in the Blank

Possessive pronouns indicate:

Decide whether the underlined demonstrative pronoun is singular or plural and whether it points out something near or far.

Multiple Choice

That is Gary's baseball bat.

• singular, near

• singular, far

• plural, near

• plural, far

Multiple Choice

Are these the books you need for the essay?

• singular, near

• singular, far

• plural, near

• plural, far

Multiple Choice

Those are the pictures I took in France last summer.

• singular, near

• singular, far

• plural, near

• plural, far

Multiple Choice

That is the dress I want for the dance next week.

• singular, near

• singular, far

• plural, near

• plural, far

Multiple Choice

Please hand this to Ray.

• singular, near

• singular, far

• plural, near

• plural, far

Select the correct demonstrative pronoun for each sentence.

Use the given verbs to help you.

Multiple Choice

_____ is the best sandwich I've ever eaten. (near)

• This

• That

• These

• Those

Multiple Choice

Weren't _____ the blue balloons Mom wanted for the party? (near)

• this

• that

• these

• those

Multiple Choice

.....is my ball.

• These

• This

• Those

• That

Multiple Choice

.....are your books.

• These

• Those

• This

• That

Multiple Choice

After seeing _____, I decided it would make a nice gift. (far)

• this

• that

• these

• those

Multiple Choice

_____ is the book I was telling you about. (near)

• This

• That

• These

• Those

Multiple Choice

_____ are the most unusual rocks. (far)

• This

• That

• These

• Those