Possessive and Reflexive Pronouns

Pronouns

What do you know about pronouns?

What is pronouns?

What are the examples of pronouns?

Nouns

Nouns refer to persons, animals, places, things, ideas, or events, etc. Nouns encompass most of the words of a language.

Noun can be a/an - 

Person – a name for a person: - Max, Julie, Catherine, Michel, Bob, etc. Animal – a name for an animal: - dog, cat, cow, kangaroo, etc.

Place – a name for a place: - London, Australia, Canada, Mumbai, etc. Thing – a name for a thing: - ball, chair, door, house, computer, etc.

Idea – A name for an idea: - devotion, superstition, happiness, excitement, etc.

1. Personal Pronouns: take the place of people or things

eg: I, you, he, she, we, it, they, me

2. Possessive Pronouns: personal pronouns that indicates the possession of something/owner of something

eg: my, your, his, her, (mine, yours, theirs- stand alone and not followed by a noun)

3. Relative Pronouns: use to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun [to add more information]

eg: who, whom, which, that

4. Reflexive Pronouns: when a subject perform an action on itself, the sentence use reflexive pronouns after the verb

eg: myself, himself, herself, themselves

Pronouns

Definition:

Nouns can be replaced by pronouns.

It can be someone, something, any animals, etc...

Type of Pronouns

1. Personal Pronouns

2. Possessive Pronouns

3. Relative Pronouns

4. Reflexive Pronouns

5. Intensive Pronouns

6. Indefinite Pronouns

7. Demonstrative Pronouns

8. Interrogative Pronouns

"I " is a pronoun which is used when we are talking about ourselves.

For eg: I am cool. I eat omelette.

1. Personal Pronouns: take the place of people or things

eg: I, you, he, she, we, it, they, me

2. Possessive Pronouns: personal pronouns that indicates the possession of something/owner of something

eg: my, your, his, her, (mine, yours, theirs- stand alone and not followed by a noun)

3. Relative Pronouns: use to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun [to add more information]

eg: who, whom, which, that

4. Reflexive Pronouns: when a subject perform an action on itself, the sentence use reflexive pronouns after the verb

eg: myself, himself, herself, themselves

"He" is used for males, such as boys and men. Whereas "she" is used to describe females, such as girls, women.

5. Intensive Pronouns: similar to reflexive pronouns but have different function in a sentence (only to add emphasis)

eg: yourself, myself [I told Ain that you yourself will bake the cake]

6. Indefinite Pronouns: refer to people or things but they don't have a specific person or thing as a reference.

eg: some, anyone, everything

7. Demonstrative Pronouns: point out a person or thing

eg: this, that, these, those

8. Interrogative Pronouns: pronouns to ask questions

eg: who, whom, whose, what, which

"We" is a special pronoun, and it is used for many people together and you are also in that group. For eg. We are happy family, we walk together.

"They" is another special pronoun which is used to describe many people when you see them from a distance. Also, when you are not in that group.

"It" is used for things and objects and also animals sometimes. Example: It is a chair, It is an Apple, It is a cat. When there are many objects, We use They.

Multiple Choice

Which pronoun best replaces the underlined noun?

Dan helps Carly and me with our homework.

• he

• we

• us

• them

And when do we use "You"? When the finger is pointed towards a person. You are a Good person!

Multiple Choice

Which pronoun best replaces the underlined noun?

The teachers and students are planting a garden at school.

• Them

• They

• We

• Us

Multiple Choice

Which pronoun best replaces the underlined noun?

My mom helped Grandma up the stairs.

• her

• him

• she

• his

Lets do some quizizz

You need to answer by filling in the blanks with appropriate "Pronouns"

Multiple Choice

Which pronoun best replaces the underlined noun?

My friends and I are taking an art class.

• Us

• We

• They

• Them

Multiple Choice

Which pronoun best replaces the underlined noun?

The baseball shattered the window.

• them

• us

• you

• it

Multiple Choice

What pronoun will you use?

• She

• He

• They

• It

Multiple Choice

Which pronoun best replaces the underlined noun?

The zookeepers fed the gorillas bamboo shoots.

• it

• they

• them

• her

Multiple Choice

Which pronoun best replaces the underlined noun?

Michael runs three miles every morning.

• Him

• He

• They

• It

Multiple Choice

What pronoun will you use?

• She

• He

• They

• It

Multiple Choice

Identify the pronoun in the sentence.

Mrs. Morris gave us a ride to school.

• ride

• school

• us

• Mrs. Morris

Multiple Choice

Identify the pronoun in the sentence.

My family will go with them to the fair.

• fair

• them

• to

• family

Multiple Choice

What pronoun will you use?

• She

• He

• They

• It

Multiple Choice

Identify the pronoun in the sentence.

The black backpack belongs to me.

• black

• backpack

• to

• me

Multiple Choice

See how many chairs are there? and tell What pronoun will you use?

• She

• He

• They

• It

Multiple Choice

In this images, look at where they are pointing their thumbs...What pronoun will you use now?

• She

• He

• We

• It

Multiple Choice

In this images, look at where they are pointing their thumbs...What pronoun will you use now?

• She

• He

• We

• They

Multiple Choice

In this images, look at where they are pointing their thumbs...What pronoun will you use now?

• She

• He

• We

• They

Multiple Choice

What pronoun will you use now?

• She

• He

• We

• it